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 ...

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 ...

Along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the student lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could ...

On May 20, 1961, the Freedom Riders arrived in Montgomery and were attacked by a violent mob, despite the Freedom Riders themselves arriving unarmed and in a nonviolent fashion. The Montgomery Bus ...

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.

Gomeroi man Uncle Wayne Nean reflects on the day he met a remarkable group of students who had driven to regional NSW to stand up to racism: The Freedom Riders.