Moses Newson, Journalist, Afro-American (reading): "The courageous Freedom Riders won't ever be the same. They left Washington, D.C. in good spirits with high hopes in their country and fellow men.

At the time of the Freedom Rides, Stokely Carmichael was a 19-year-old student at Howard University, the son of West Indian immigrants to New York City.

Freedom Riders Ride Again This year marks the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, the drive to register black voters down South as part of the civil right struggle.

The Freedom Riders: A local man remembers a turning point in the American Civil Rights Movement. Published: ; Apr. 09, 2011, 12:06 p.m.

Sixty years ago, they boarded buses in search of equality. The 1961 Freedom Rides were inspired by the 1947 Journey for Reconciliation, when members of the Congress of Racial Equality traveled by ...

Freedom Rides Retracing route of civil rights fight 50 years later. ... 2011, at the National Center for the study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at Alabama State University ...

The ‘40s freedom ride formed in response to the Morgan v. Virginia case. Irene Morgan, a black woman, was arrested in 1944 in Virginia for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger.

To honor the Freedom Riders' work to initiate change, the American History Museum, in conjunction with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, are sponsoring a national youth ...

Join us for a special screening of PBS’s “American Experience: Freedom Riders,” an inspirational 2010 documentary by veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson. The 1961 Freedom Rides are a focus of the current ...

There is much to celebrate in the month of May—Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Mother's Day, as well as a number of anniversaries marking special events in our nation's history.On today ...

Home; Digest; Features Show of the week: American Experience: Freedom Riders. American Experience recounts how the Freedom Riders helped to desegregate interstate trains and buses in the Deep South.

Unlike the reverse freedom riders, who were from the American South, many of the migrants who boarded buses this year had no personal ties to the U.S. border towns they departed from.