"I knew a tiny bit about the Freedom Riders, and I thought it would be wonderful to take one part of the civil rights movement and look at it in detail," Nelson said. "And then I started to work ...

new federal legislation that struck down segregation in America's transit systems was put to the test with a series of nonviolent protests known as the Freedom Rides. Civil rights activists both ...

Guy Lockard and Barry Anderson — Photo Credit: Mia Winston “Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical” is the story of civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis, who walks with a humble spirit ...

The Freedom Rides continued, and Nash later joined the ... Jr., the city of Memphis settled its sanitation strike. The civil rights leader had come to Memphis to help the sanitation workers ...

Nash, and the other women involved in the Freedom Rides, changed all that. The most iconic images and beloved texts from the 20th-century American civil rights struggle tend to be of and by men.

“They don’t have any sense.” But local scholars of the civil rights movement used the word “courage” more than once when describing the Freedom Riders and their actions. “They faced ...

brings its “Freedom Riders” production to Purdue University’s Loeb Playhouse in Stewart Center at 3 p.m. Sunday, the six-member troupe will bring that aspect of the Civil Rights era to life.

The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library in Denver will host the traveling exhibition “Freedom Riders” Nov. 2-26. It documents the civil-rights movement from the early Kennedy ...

Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders Urge Younger Activists to Get Out the Vote ATLANTA (AP) — Charles Person, one of the Civil Rights Movement's original Freedom Riders, echoed organizers ...

The new leader is focused on advancing cultural heritage tourism and education. A new leader has been tapped for the superintendent role for the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument and ...

"They tell the important stories of the citizens who helped launch the civil rights movement in Birmingham and the Freedom Riders whose bravery raised national awareness of segregation and violence.