And few former Freedom Riders still practice civil disobedience. Joan Pleune, 70, of New York City, is a member of the Granny Peace Brigade; she was arrested two years ago at an anti-Iraq War ...

In Freedom Riders, Burks says she borrowed a line from ... William Harbour was the oldest of eight children and the first member of his family to go to college. At age 19, while a student at ...

Other Freedom Riders recalled his quick wit and hard-nosed ... of segregation she encountered in Tennessee, she was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC ...

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.

Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died on Wednesday in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82.

On May 4, 1961, a bus carrying black and white anti-segregation activists called the Freedom Riders rolled into Alabama and was immediately attacked by members of the KKK. This event was captured ...