This year is the 55th anniversary of The Freedom Rides, a pivotal moment in the history of America's Civil Rights Movement and in the transformation of Alabama. The front page of The Birmingham ...

“After we got word about the beatings in Birmingham and bus burning near Anniston, we decided that we would take up the freedom rides,” she said in 2011. “We knew it had to be done and that ...

Birmingham and Montgomery." But he still went to Nashville and from there to Jackson, where he was ultimately put in jail. According to Patton, Freedom Riders opted for jail time over fines.

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

A few hours later, black and white passengers on a Trailways bus were beaten bloody after they entered whites-only waiting rooms and restaurants at bus terminals in Birmingham and Anniston ...

USA TODAY’s “Seven Days of 1961” explores how sustained acts of resistance can bring about sweeping change. Throughout 1961, activists risked their lives to fight for voting rights and the ...

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 ...

First, they had to get to New Orleans. Person and other Freedom Riders were planning to go by riding the bus but no drivers in Birmingham would take them. Their only option was to fly back.

Freedom Riders: The story of how they revolutionized ... news/newsreleases.htm and on the monument's Facebook page. On Old Birmingham Highway about 6 miles away, an Alabama Historical Marker ...

There was no bus company willing to take the Freedom Riders out of Birmingham. Kennedy called Bull Connor, who told him that he would protect the bus station but not the bus once it left the station.

She later had careers in social work, education and sales, but often spoke publicly about the Freedom Rides.Credit...Eric Etheridge Catherine Burks was born on Oct. 8, 1939, in Birmingham ...