This year marks the 61st anniversary of the 1961 Freedom rides through the segregated South, aimed at dismantling the Jim Crow system looming over the transportation industry at the time. Freedom ...

Herbert Young was 25 years old in 1961 when he made history busing Freedom Riders through Alabama’s capital city of Montgomery, where an angry mob confronted them. He died on Jan. 2 at age 86, 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 Americans ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Trailways Bus Center in Shreveport was segregated from the moment it opened on June 28, 1948, until the city’s civil rights movement finally tipped the scales and ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A 33 1/3 rpm LP record album titled ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who were battered, bloodied and nearly killed as they traveled across the South in 1961, helping the civil rights movement gain momentum ...

The cast for = Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical, has been officially revealed. This musical event will take place at the City College Center for the Arts in Aaron Davis Hall – Marian Anderson ...