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 ...

Fort Gansevoort has announced that Three Marys: Freedom Riders by Dawn Williams Boyd has been acquired by the Birmingham Museum of Art. This mixed media cloth painting is part of Boyd's Three ...

The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring ... Most of the riders were college students coached in the art of nonviolent protest by veteran activists, including the Rev ...

The mug shots for John Robert Lewis, the future Congressman, taken after his May 24, 1961 arrest for his involvement in the Freedom Riders protest. A collection of Freedom Rider mug shots is part ...

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 ...

Drummer Art Blakey and many other jazz musicians ... Virginia. Hundreds of Freedom Riders, who followed in the brave footsteps of the original 13, were often punished or incarcerated.

Freedom Riders, a 2011 film that screens at the San Antonio Museum of Art as part of DreamWeek, shines a light on Nash and many other young, brave blacks and whites who headed into certain danger ...