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.

ALABAMA REPRESENTATIVE TERRI SEWELL SAYING THE FREEDOM RIDES MUSEUM IN MONTGOMERY WAS PLACED ON A LIST ... PEOPLE WERE BEATEN. PEOPLE WERE NEARLY KILLED JUST FOR RIDING A BUS, JUST FOR EXERCISING. A ...

Two icons of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, the Montgomery Bus Station and the Freedom Rides Museum, had been on the federal government's list of buildings for sale. That's no longer the case.

Patterson knew of the potential for violence when the CORE Freedom Riders reached Alabama on May 14, 1961. His Director of the Alabama Highway Patrol, Floyd Mann, positioned two undercover ...

Defending the actions of the Freedom Riders, Cox argues in Freedom Riders, "If men like Governor Patterson [of Alabama] and Governor Barnett of Mississippi... would carry out the good oath of ...

Two groups sat behind signs “Greyhound” and “Trailways” on a stage in Amherst in a scene recreating the spring 1961 bus journey of the Freedom Riders and their historic stand for equality ...

Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, issued a statement Wednesday after the U.S. General Services Administration confirmed that the historic Montgomery Bus Station, home to the Freedom Riders Museum ...

The list included the Montgomery Bus Station, a historical site that houses the Freedom Rides Museum ... of a particular URL's history. Six Alabama properties were on both versions of the list ...

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.