In 1961 19-year-old Jon Browning of Georgia was asked to leave Georgia State College for Women because she had worshipped at a Black Church, Wesley Chapel AME Church. She knew she had to take action.

"He stood firm so that we may be able to experience the joys of freedom ... that Person and his fellow riders "tore down the walls of segregation." "Person was an American hero that changed ...

"He stood firm so that we may be able to experience the joys of freedom ... Person and his fellow Riders "tore down the walls of segregation." "Person was an American hero that changed this ...

the Freedom Riders pressed on, driven by their commitment to justice and equality. “We had a job to do,” Person said. “And we were determined to see it through”. In reflecting on the aftermath, Person ...

Join us for a special screening of PBS’s “American Experience: Freedom Riders,” an inspirational 2010 documentary by veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson. The 1961 Freedom Rides are a focus of the current ...

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 ...

Jacksonville — The American Legion Riders Chapter 9 will host the 9th ... to honor America’s fallen veterans from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and first responders ...

Rabbi Israel "Sy" Dresner was one of the earliest Freedom Riders in the 1960s and was ... in an interview with the PBS history series American Experience. "In that sense, the Freedom Rides were ...

Since she was appointed executive producer of “American Experience” in July ... Nelson’s “The Murder of Emmett Till” and “Freedom Riders” and Rory Kennedy’s “The Last Days ...

The 30-year-old activist from Atlanta understood she was riding in the shadow of Freedom Riders. “It’s been a liberating, emotional experience ... for People for the American Way, a liberal ...

A civil rights activist alongside her husband Walter Bergman, Frances Bergman was a school teacher and member of the American ... to becoming a Freedom Rider, Blankenheim’s experience as a ...

A civil rights activist alongside her husband Walter Bergman, Frances Bergman was a school teacher and member of the American ... to becoming a Freedom Rider, Blankenheim’s experience as a ...