Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white ... riders to escape the inferno. Even then some were pummeled with baseball bats as they fled. A few hours later ...

in May 1961.Credit...The Birmingham News, via Associated Press The original Freedom Riders were 13 Black and white men and women of various ages from across the United States. Raymond Arsenault ...

but all the Freedom Riders were in the same block. “We had wonderful discussions,” he said. “And the black Freedom Riders taught us white boys to sing, and we sang and we sang and we sang.

So in the spring of 1961, a group of seven black and six white activists ... Fifty percent of all the Freedom Riders eventually were white.” Added Dr. William Harbour: “And I really believe ...

while his black comrades were held at Mississippi’s Parchman prison. Green is black and was held at Parchman. Freedom Rider Paul Green, who is white, was held in the local jail. This version has ...

The group was half black, half white. They divided the tasks and ... the Williams family and the other Reverse Freedom Riders were still 1,000 miles from anything that resembled home.

Charges against four men who were arrested in 1947 after launching the first of the "freedom rides" to fight ... "In April 1947, 16 people — eight Black and eight White — set out on a tour ...

“The state was segregated. Schools were segregated.” Freedom Riders were groups of mostly young Black and White students who road buses across the South in 1961, challenging segregation in ...

Freedom Riders National Monument is a new park that is in the progress of being built by the National Park Service. There are currently two sites for the Freedom Riders National Monument in ...

The “reverse freedom rides” of 1962 were meant to provoke Northern ... tickets offered to his family and other Black Southerners by members of the White Citizens’ Council, a segregationist ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders ... terminals still bore signs reading “White” and “Colored,” and Black passengers were routinely forced to the back of ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white ...