When reporters asked Abernathy to respond to Robert Kennedy's complaint that the Freedom Riders were embarrassing the United States in front of the world, Abernathy responded, "Well, doesn't the ...

One of these sites supposedly slated for sale that is on the National Register of Historic Places was Montgomery's own Montgomery Bus Station — which houses the Freedom Rides Museum — whose ...

The bus passengers assaulted that day were Freedom Riders, among the first of more than 400 volunteers who traveled throughout the South on regularly scheduled buses for seven months in 1961 to ...

Mirror photo by William Kibler John Roseberry (from left) speaks with his son, Doug Roseberry, Phil Hess and John Harlow at the announcement of the national VA’s 2022 American Spirit ...

Revisit the historical journey made 50 years ago by a group of University students led by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins, who set off on a bus ride around regional New South Wales to expose ...

These self-proclaimed, 'Freedom Riders' challenged the mores of a racially segregated society by performing a disarmingly simple act.

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.