So now, The Root is taking a closer look at the anti-racist white heroes who were just as down for civil rights as Black ...

Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white ... riders to escape the inferno. Even then some were pummeled with baseball bats as they fled. A few hours later ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Freedom House Ambulance Service set the standard for emergency medical care, laying the ...

The violent rebellion struck fear into whites throughout the South and led to the passage of a new law that required black churches to have white ministers ... the Freedom Riders movement and ...

despite a Supreme Court ruling in 1960 that said segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Freedom Riders consisted of groups of mostly young Black and white students who rode buses ...

Two icons of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, the Montgomery Bus Station and the Freedom Rides Museum, had been on the federal government's list of buildings for sale. That's no longer the case.

Among the leaders of the Freedom Ride were two white men who have made ... Some of the Nashville stu dents, joined by sympathizers, white and black, boarded a Greyhound bus and were escorted ...

In the 1960’s the Klan rode freely in the South on horseback, trucks and cars. After the murders, Sheriff Cecil Price told ...

The Trump Administration's reasons for resettling Afrikaners echo early U.S. debates about Haiti's independence.

Sylvester Stewart, known as Sly Stone, turned soul, rock and R&B into something kinetic, kaleidoscopic and irreversibly Black ...