The City of Sydney will host a photographic exhibition in Redfern to mark the anniversary of the Freedom Ride.60 years ago, a ...

In Alabama, many have come through the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport, but have you ever stopped to ask, why is it named ...

On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church to honor his life and work.

How a southern segregationist group took action to slow the growth of the civil rights movement ... head on with its bold series of freedom rides in 1961. We had these mixed groups of black ...

The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...

More:Freedom Riders traveled deep into the South in 1961. Klansmen beat them, then set their bus on fire. The Morehouse College freshman had first become involved in Civil Rights protests in ...

From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

There he became involved in civil rights and in February 1961 was arrested during a sit-in at an Atlanta restaurant. When he returned from the Freedom Ride, his mother urged him to join the Army ...

who is the only living Freedom Rider. There are 13 original members. The rides were organized by the Congress of Racial Equality, a civil rights group that championed nonviolent direct action.

Glen Echo Amusement Park was the wholesome, beloved playground of White metropolitan Washington, DC. Every summer, tens of ...