This year is the 55th anniversary of The Freedom Rides, a pivotal moment in the history of America's Civil Rights Movement and in the transformation of Alabama. The front page of The Birmingham ...

“After we got word about the beatings in Birmingham and bus burning near Anniston, we decided that we would take up the freedom rides,” she said in 2011. “We knew it had to be done and that ...

Birmingham and Montgomery." But he still went to Nashville and from there to Jackson, where he was ultimately put in jail. According to Patton, Freedom Riders opted for jail time over fines.

For Person, the beatings he and the other Freedom Riders took in Anniston and Birmingham on May 14 would mark the end of the Freedom Ride for the CORE group. No bus driver was willing to take the ...

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

A few hours later, black and white passengers on a Trailways bus were beaten bloody after they entered whites-only waiting rooms and restaurants at bus terminals in Birmingham and Anniston ...

USA TODAY’s “Seven Days of 1961” explores how sustained acts of resistance can bring about sweeping change. Throughout 1961, activists risked their lives to fight for voting rights and the ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white ...

First, they had to get to New Orleans. Person and other Freedom Riders were planning to go by riding the bus but no drivers in Birmingham would take them. Their only option was to fly back.

Police looked the other way 40 years ago when Freedom Riders were viciously beaten in Birmingham on Mother's Day. But on Saturday, a bus caravan marking the anniversary of the event was given a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sixty years ago, they boarded buses in search of equality. The 1961 Freedom Rides were inspired by the 1947 Journey for Reconciliation, when members of the Congress of Racial ...