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 ...

Lewis’ cause attracts some of the most iconic civil rights figures of the 1960s; including Martin Luther King, Jr. (Guy Lockard), Ralph Abernathy (Brandon Michael Nase), Stokely Carmichael (Nygel D.

Originally produced as a documentary in 2010. Companion book: Freedom riders: 1961 and the struggle for racial justice / Raymond Arsenault, Oxford University Press, c2011 ; Abridged ed. Based in part ...

ATLANTA — Family and friends gathered Friday to remember the life and legacy of Charles Person, the youngest original Freedom Rider and a civil rights legend. Person died at his home on January 8 in ...

Fifty years after a young, black college student put her life on the line in the name of civil rights, she thinks there is still much work to be done to ensure equality for all. Diane Nash was a ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Freedom Riders who were attacked in Alabama's capital city on May 20, 1961, returned 50 years later to be hailed as heroes and have a museum dedicated at the old bus station where ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. Person was only 18 when he joined. In 1961, the Freedom Riders challenged racial segregation in the deep South by riding ...

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You don't have to ride Jim Crow -- Beside the weary road -- Hallelujah! I'm a-travelin' -- Alabama bound -- Get on board, little children -- If you miss me from the back of the bus -- Freedom's coming ...