Representative John Lewis was among the 13 original Freedom Riders, who encountered violence ... created a “Journey of Reconciliation” to draw attention to racial segregation in public ...

Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they launched the first of the “freedom rides” to challenge ...

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 ...