That was Attorney General Robert Kennedy ... Two days earlier, on Mother’s Day, a group of Freedom Riders — young, mostly student activists challenging the South’s segregation laws by ...

Their efforts helped pave the way for the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce the ruling a year later, as ordered by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. “The Freedom Rides Museum is an ...

King phoned the attorney general from the church basement, warning of impending disaster. In the course of the conversation, Kennedy asked King whether the Freedom Riders might agree to a cooling ...

Even for those familiar with the era, the civil rights movement can be a jumble of half-remembered recollections — iconic photographs, gripping newsreels, stirring speeches — with no sense of ...

Kennedy became Attorney General in January 1961 ... to a Southern white audience a few days after the start of the Freedom Rides on May 6. However the issue was not yet a major priority for ...

After violence against the Riders took place in both Anniston and Birmingham, Alabama, Attorney General Robert Kennedy sent his assistant, John Seigenthaler, to escort the Freedom Riders and ...

Oprah Winfrey is marking the 50th anniversary of the first Freedom Ride.Harpo Productions ... who was assistant to then-U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Both men were beaten during the ...

Kennedy in the Oval Office with his brother, Attorney General Robert F ... still lacking basic freedoms and civil rights. The Freedom Rides did not come at a convenient time for the administration.

Ultimately, 436 riders participated in more than 60 Freedom Rides, Mr. Arsenault said. On May 29, 1961, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to ban ...

Migrant relocations echo ’60s Reverse Freedom Rides Judge John A. Dixon, Jr. quoted U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy in his verdict, saying that a gathering by Negroes under such ...