Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Georgia Congressman John Lewis. Eric Etheridge, from Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders, Atlas & Co ...

The landmark site in Montgomery, Alabama, was deemed “not core to government operations,” and other stops in U.S. civil ...

The Freedom Rides brought together people of different ... a single organization or charismatic leader did not dominate; instead, history was made by courageous men and women who chose to join ...

She says this story is still relevant, even 60 years after the Freedom Riders first came together. “Unfortunately, we can see ...

Green shared his story as a Freedom Rider at a Black History Month celebration Saturday in Markham. "I would say it was the ...

Sixty-two years ago this week, Birmingham’s children answered the call. Between May 2–10, 1963, thousands of Black youth, ...

Four of the so-called Freedom Riders — Andrew Johnson ... Dr. Adriane Lentz-Smith, an associate professor and associate chair in the department of history at Duke University, described Rustin as "a ...

1961, the first group of “Freedom Riders” left Washington, D.C., to challenge racial segregation on interstate buses and in bus terminals. 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on student ...

Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Georgia Congressman John Lewis. Eric Etheridge, from Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders, Atlas & Co ...