They called themselves the Freedom Riders, and they managed to bring the president and the entire American public face-to-face with the challenge of correcting civil-rights inequities that plagued ...

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 ...

The American Freedom Riders, also affectionately known as "the cowgirls," will be serving as a mounted color guard for the annual Wreaths Across America ceremony. Debbie Edens-Wright, Barbara ...

And our allies were the American Jews. Fifty percent of all the Freedom Riders eventually were white.” Added Dr. William Harbour: “And I really believe that if we didn’t have the ...

Sixty years after Freedom Riders were driven into the American South with a distinct mission, has the time of such targeted protest passed? ‘Some people don’t think you’ll make it out of ...

In Freedom Riders, Burks says she borrowed a line from ... FL and was enrolled as an undergraduate at Nashville's American Baptist Theological Seminary. A veteran of the Nashville sit-ins ...

"These things violated my profound beliefs as a person and as an American." Last night at Springfield's Symphony Hall, local civil rights activists were joined by actual Freedom Riders for a ...

Those who got on buses risked their lives. The Freedom Riders, who were both African-American and white, were arrested and attacked on the bus route. Anniston, Alabama was an especially violent ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, the drive to register black voters down South as part of the civil right struggle. Volunteers and organizers who worked in Louisiana got ...

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 ...

The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring young activists intent on ending segregated travel on interstate buses in the Deep South. The American Experience film, set to air ...

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