Film Description. 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 ...

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 is the powerful and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more… ...

San Diego’s Smooth Jazz Festival, a stand-up appearance by George Lopez, a summer choral concert and “Moulin Rouge! The ...

Exactly 50 years ago today, 13 "Freedom Riders" — seven black and six white — rode public buses into the Deep South. Their mission: to test a brand-new federal law prohibiting segregation in ...

Tonight’s screening of the new movie, Freedom Riders, has local off-road riding advocates pumped up.The movie — which creators call “the Dogtown and Z Boys’ of mountain biking — chronicles the ...

Fort Gansevoort has announced that Three Marys: Freedom Riders by Dawn Williams Boyd has been acquired by the Birmingham Museum of Art.

PBS’s “AMERICAN EXPERIENCE,” one of America’s most-watched history series, has launched the 2011 Student Freedom Ride, a journey retracing the historic civil rights bus rides that changed ...

Former New Orleanian Julia Aaron Humbles, activist and Freedom Rider, ... New Orleans native was an inspiration to MLK Jr. By KATY RECKDAHL Special to The Advocate; Feb 1, 2016 Feb 1, 2016; ...

Film Description. 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 ...