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 ...

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.

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, ...

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.

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 Harris family lived on the same block as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the family's drug store was a key rideshare point during the Montgomery bus boycott. So when she got a knock on the ...

In Freedom Riders, Burks says she borrowed a line from the Westerns of the day, ... Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to the striking workers on the day before his assassination.

At 18 years old, Charles Person of Atlanta was the youngest of the Freedom Riders that boarded two Trailway buses in Washington, D.C. bound for New Orleans on May 4, 1961.