Film Description. Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever.From May until November 1961, more than 400 black ...

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 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.

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 ...

Freedom Riders has an epic quality, given that it deals with larger-than-life issues such as moral consciousness. But the sense of humor of the civil rights workers lets some of the bad air out of ...

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.

50 Years After Freedom Rides, Pro-Life Activists Take to the Road ... Dr. Alveda King, director of African-American outreach; Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life; ...

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.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — 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 ...

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 ...

OPINION — The current American debate around voting rights draws parallels to the civil rights activism of the 1960s in more ways ... With freedom rides and ‘states’ rights’ refrains, ...