Meet the movement leaders featured in Freedom Riders.

Monday will mark the 30th time the Freedom Train has carried people up the Peninsula to San Francisco to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery ...

Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks holds a poster of her mug shot, taken after her arrest in Jackson, Miss., during the Freedom Rides. She was speaking at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

In 1961, riders black and white headed South to test the region's segregation laws. Things turned violent in Alabama. Fifty years later, cities along the route are marking the rides with exhibit ...

Yolanda Renée King is the sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King—and is just as passionate. She ...

Saturday, the Freedom Rides Museum is hosting “MLK and the Freedom Rides: A 60th Anniversary Reflection.” “You know, we think about it in the space of, you know, decades.

Interview with Georgia Congressman John Lewis explores his involvement in the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, his time as one of the first Freedom Riders how social activism led him to a career in ...

In Freedom Riders, she vividly recalls the assault on fellow Freedom Rider Jim Zwerg. "Some men held him while white women clawed his face with their nails.

Freedom Train attracts new generation of riders for MLK Day A new generation of civil rights advocates have joined onto an annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day tradition of riding the Freedom Train ...

Five years after the death of civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will gather on ...

Lewis' legacy as a civil rights activist and lawmaker spans decades and numerous administrations. What to know as planned protests invoke his legacy.

As you may recall, seven years ago, in May of 1961, bunches of so-called Freedom Riders bused down south and intentionally provoked the armed mobs who had gathered to greet them with bricks, lead ...