Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who were battered, bloodied and nearly killed as they traveled across the South in 1961, helping the civil rights movement gain momentum ...

On Tuesday, the Trump administration released a list of hundreds of federal buildings across the nation that the federal government planned to take "decisive action" to offload from their ownership on ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer who inspired the “Freedom Rides," has died at the age of 83. Former Alabama state Sen. Hank Sanders confirmed Boynton's passing Tuesday.

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from “Buses Are A Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider” by Charles Person, one of the original 13 Freedom Riders, who was brutally beaten by Klansmen in ...

And so this is how it ends. The bus, half a century overdue, rolls to a stop in the middle of the street before a throng of cheering, clapping humanity. Fifty years after the first busload of Freedom ...

ST. LOUIS -- A mother who joined the Freedom Riders bus caravan traveling the nation in support of immigrants' rights did so to honor her son, Esteban Silva, a Mexican laborer who died this summer.

Rep. Terri Sewell and Rep. Shomari Figures are trying to preserve a landmark of the Civil Rights Movement. Alabama Representatives are taking action to prevent the possible sale of the Freedom Rides ...