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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) -It’s been 60 years since freedom riders boarded buses to integrate interstate travel. Saturday, the Freedom Rides Museum is hosting “MLK and the Freedom Rides: A 60th ...

Freedom Rides Retracing route of civil rights fight 50 years later ... A statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Birmingham's Kelly Ingram Park overlooks the 16th Street Baptist Church, ...

Meet the movement leaders featured in Freedom Riders. Diane Nash, Chicago, IL. By 1961, Diane Nash had emerged as one of the most respected student leaders of the sit-in movement in Nashville, TN.

SAN JOSE — Last January, on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, America’s final Freedom Train chugged out of San Jose’s Diridon Station and into the mists of history. But on Monday, a new ...

The murders of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy in 1968 nearly killed John Lewis. The men were models for the young man from Troy, Ala., now in his 12th term in the U.S. House of ...

One thousand people boarded Caltrain's Freedom Train Monday for a ride from San Jose to San Francisco to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 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 ...

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 ...

The Freedom Rides Museum commemorates the courage and sacrifice of a group of civil rights advocates — Black and white, young and old, female and male, Southern and Northern — who risked their ...