The Freedom Riders drew inspiration from the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947, led by Bayard Rustin and George Houser. The Freedom Rides campaigns followed on the heels of the highly visible ...

Poor People's Campaign and led the 1968 March on Washington. Ralph Abernathy died in 1990. At the time of the Freedom Rides, Stokely Carmichael was a 19-year-old student at Howard University ...

Poor People's Campaign and led the 1968 March on Washington. Ralph Abernathy died in 1990. At the time of the Freedom Rides, Stokely Carmichael was a 19-year-old student at Howard University ...