Freedom Riders

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January 18, 2023
Herbert Young was 25 in 1961 when he bused Freedom Riders through Alabama’s capital city where an angry mob confronted…
Cape Cod families
September 19, 2022
The migrants now in Cape Cod mirror 1962's "Reverse Freedom Riders," Blacks who were allegedly duped as payback for the…
June 17, 2022
Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North…
May 5, 2022
The first floor of the storied building at Xavier University will also house an advisory hub for students entering health…
November 27, 2020
Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark “Freedom Rides" of 1961, died Monday. He…
March 10, 2014
VIDEO - The 49th annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, to mark the anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, was held this…
August 28, 2013
MSNBC - Bruce Davidson is a Magnum photographer and a revered master of social documentary photography...
May 26, 2011
OPINION - What must it have been like to board segregated buses 50 years ago, when indignities and insults were…
May 25, 2011
OPINION - If young people were willing to risk their lives 50 years ago for the cause of equal rights,…
May 20, 2011
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Rep. John Lewis said he teared up Friday when he walked through the old Greyhound station…
May 20, 2011
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Freedom Riders were trying to integrate Southern bus stations when they arrived in Montgomery on…
May 9, 2011
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Charles Reed Jr. is skipping his college graduation ceremony to do something much more significant to…
May 4, 2011
SLIDESHOW - This week marks the start of the 50th anniversary of the civil rights Freedom Riders, who traveled by…
May 4, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - This month, students will retrace the Freedom Rides. Also, PBS will premiere a new documentary on the…
May 3, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Oprah Winfrey is marking the 50th anniversary of the first Freedom Ride...
December 21, 2010
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring young activists intent on ending segregated…
April 22, 2010
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Next year's commemoration of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Rides is expected to dwarf any other tourism…