The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring ... Most of the riders were college students coached in the art of nonviolent protest by veteran activists, including the Rev ...

LAKELAND — Tampa native, the Rev. Bernard LaFayette Jr., came face-to-face with an attacking mob of Ku Klux Klan members in the summer of 1961 as he and a group of other students rode a bus to ...

Freedom Riders who were attacked in ... the Alabama Historical Commission developed the 3,000-square-foot museum with art work, photos and descriptions of what happened and the impact it had.

Singleton, now 75, is the mother of three grown sons and a retired art consultant living in Inglewood, Calif. She returned with Bob to Jackson in 2001 for a Freedom Riders reunion where they saw ...

By the time Art Blakey recorded The Freedom Rider, segregation in public bus terminals was outlawed. But the battle had just begun. State and local governments in the South continued to enforce ...

The film, “Freedom Riders,” recounts the 1961 crusade by ... Most of the riders were college students coached in the art of nonviolent protest by veteran activists, including the Rev. James ...

In an effort to test rulings by the Supreme Court that declared as unconstitutional “Whites Only” lunch rooms, restrooms and bus terminals as well as segregated trains and buses, the Freedom ...

When he was riding a New Orleans bus at the age of 9 or 10, he removed the movable sign that separated seating areas for white and black riders ... at the Where Y'Art gallery, 1901 Royal St ...

Credit: Art Rickerby/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images ... Kennedy used his inaugural address to speak about spreading freedom throughout the world — a goal contradicted by the large number ...

AT 85, HIS PASSION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE HASN’T WANED in the 60 years since HE WAS ARRESTED FOR TAKING PART IN THE FREEDOM RIDES IN 1961. GLEASON BECAME AN ORDAINED MINISTER, MOVED TO CHICAGO AND ...