Why the Freedom Riders matter more than ever
OPINION - What must it have been like to board segregated buses 50 years ago, when indignities and insults were the norm?...
Where are the modern Freedom Riders?
OPINION - If young people were willing to risk their lives 50 years ago for the cause of equal rights, where are the youth activists of today willing to do the same?...
Freedom Riders finally get place in history
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Rep. John Lewis said he teared up Friday when he walked through the old Greyhound station where he was beaten and knocked unconscious...
Freedom Riders museum opens in Montgomery, Ala.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Freedom Riders were trying to integrate Southern bus stations when they arrived in Montgomery on May 20, 1961...
50 years later, students retrace 1961 Freedom Ride
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Charles Reed Jr. is skipping his college graduation ceremony to do something much more significant to him...
Slideshow: Remembering the Freedom Riders
SLIDESHOW - This week marks the start of the 50th anniversary of the civil rights Freedom Riders, who traveled by bus to confront segregation in the South...
May marks 50 years since Freedom Rides in South
WASHINGTON (AP) - This month, students will retrace the Freedom Rides. Also, PBS will premiere a new documentary on the subject...
178 Freedom Riders to be on 'Oprah'
CHICAGO (AP) - Oprah Winfrey is marking the 50th anniversary of the first Freedom Ride...
'Freedom Riders': Film revisits 60s segregation fight
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring young activists intent on ending segregated travel on interstate buses in the Deep South...
Mississippi makes Freedom Ride a tourist draw
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Next year's commemoration of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Rides is expected to dwarf any other tourism event the southern state has ever seen...
