There are currently two sites for the Freedom Riders National Monument in Anniston, Alabama that you can visit. Currently, ...

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 ...

On May 4, a new interactive exhibit — a vintage Greyhound bus — rolled into the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. For a decade, the museum has told the stories of the 400-plus men ...

On episode four: The Freedom Ride movement almost ended in Alabama on May 14, 1961, when Hank Thomas and six other Riders nearly died on a bus set on fire in rural Alabama, where the Ku Klux Klan ...

Alabama. The bus passengers assaulted that day were Freedom Riders, among the first of more than 400 volunteers who traveled throughout the South on regularly scheduled buses for seven months in ...

Defending the actions of the Freedom Riders, Cox argues in Freedom Riders, "If men like Governor Patterson [of Alabama] and Governor Barnett of Mississippi... would carry out the good oath of ...

Terri A. Sewell and Shomari Figures saw the GSA list, both Alabama Democrats immediately demanded that the station be spared. The site, which houses the Freedom Rides Museum, is “an essential ...

Representatives for the museum told AL.com Thursday that they had not ... landmark that not only honors the legacy of the Freedom Riders but also educates the public about our nation’s struggle ...

It highlights the Freedom Riders and the impact of police brutality ... musical play "We Shall Someday," which opens April 24 at Alabama Shakespeare Festival. All it takes is one person, one ...

Alabama. The bus passengers assaulted that day were Freedom Riders, among the first of more than 400 volunteers who traveled throughout the South on regularly scheduled buses for seven months in ...