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