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 ...

Credit: Art Rickerby/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images ... Americans still lacking basic freedoms and civil rights. The Freedom Rides did not come at a convenient time for the administration.

In recognition of these activists’ courage and commitment, the San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art (SDAAMFA ... arrest “mug shots” of the Freedom Riders from more than 60 years ...