Early news accounts criticized "extremists on both sides," equating civil rights activists with their segregationist opposition. Other editorials characterized the Freedom Riders as "outside ...

By then, national news outlets had run reports and footage of the attacks on the peaceful protestors, and public opinion was turning toward them. More Freedom Riders stepped up to continue the ...

As news of the relocation spread, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library quickly drew historical parallels to the Reverse Freedom Rides during the Kennedy administration. In 1962, a group of ...

The “reverse freedom rides” of 1962 were meant to provoke ... The organization alerted news media outlets in order to attract coverage, but much of it was critical. The New York Times describe ...

I remember watching the evening news. I will see dogs biting individuals ... But I keep hearing these words. Freedom Riders, When I got off, went over to the phone booth, a pickup truck.

Charles Person, the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. Person was only 18 when he joined. In 1961, the Freedom Riders challenged racial segregation in the deep South by ...

The Freedom Riders were met with further violence ... a Baptist minister and civil rights organizer who offered shelter to the riders. News coverage of the attacks horrified the nation.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Faith leaders across Jacksonville participated in the Freedom Riders tour Friday night. It's a campaign to commemorate the Civil Rights movement and express the importance ...

As the riders attempted to board the bus in Chapel Hill, several of them were removed by force and attacked by a group of angry cab drivers. Four of the so-called Freedom Riders — Andrew Johnson ...

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