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 ...

Charles Person, the youngest original member of the Freedom Riders, passed away at 82 in Fayetteville. At 18, Person joined the Freedom Riders, facing violence to challenge racial segregation in ...

The presence of Smith and other members of the news media helped shift public opinion in favor of the Freedom Riders and may well have saved lives by causing the mob to refrain from lethal violence.

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 ...

AT 85, HIS PASSION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE HASN’T WANED in the 60 years since HE WAS ARRESTED FOR TAKING PART IN THE FREEDOM RIDES IN 1961. GLEASON BECAME AN ORDAINED MINISTER, MOVED TO CHICAGO AND ...

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 ...

Russell's effort and that of Rilee Rossouw (41 off 30) pushed the Knight Riders to a good total but the bowlers let them down as Freedom's openers set the chase up which eventually ended with six ...