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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.