As detailed in the impressive documentary Freedom Riders, Nash, a young black college student, stood up not only to segregation in the South, murderous racist mobs and nay-saying from within the ...

She was among a small group of students who restarted the Freedom Rides after the first attempt ... He said that she was always armed with enormous poster boards filled with timelines and bullet ...

The freedom riders have suffered from many misconceptions and distortions about their role in the civil rights struggle. In the movie The Ladykillers, Tom Hanks describes the Freedom Riders to a young ...

There was to be a dinner at Dooky Chase Restaurant on May 17, 1961, to honor the Freedom Riders upon their arrival in New Orleans. PBS / Courtesy of CORBISFreedom Riders en route to New Orleans ...

They called themselves the Freedom Riders. White mobs responded with violence ... I asked some of my classmates if they wanted to go to a movie with me and was informed that we could not go ...

Tonight’s screening of the new movie, Freedom Riders, has local off-road riding advocates pumped up. The movie — which creators call “the Dogtown and Z Boys’ of mountain biking — chronicles the ...

Life as an activist came before he was a Freedom Rider. Zwerg was part of the group that successfully integrated movie theaters in Nashville. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEME:The distance ahead: John Lewis ...

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 ...