Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who were battered, bloodied and nearly killed as they ...
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 ...
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 ...
B I R M I N G H A M, Ala., May 12 -- Riding into Montgomery to a hero'swelcome Saturday, Ed Blankenheim said he can still remember thehatred on the faces of the men and women who surrounded and ...
Charges against four men who were arrested in 1947 after launching the first of the "freedom rides" to fight Jim Crow Laws have been posthumously dismissed by a North Carolina judge 75 years after ...
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. In ...
Fifty years ago, Edward Kale was arrested for breach of peace in Jackson, Miss., when he refused to leave a restaurant that was designated blacks only. Kale was a student at Yale Divinity School in ...
BALTIMORE - A piece of Maryland history, a home that once hosted the Freedom Riders, is on the verge of being foreclosed. The historical home in Aberdeen once was a refuge for the Freedom Riders, ...
The Freedom Riders group included seven blacks and six whites. Black Riders would sit in the front of the bus, white Riders in the back, and an interracial pair would sit together. A couple of the ...
Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans ...
Video above shows how the holiday of Veterans Day began. FORT WAYNE, Ind. — The Fort Wayne-based Chapter 1 of The Freedom Riders of Indiana hosted a family-friendly motorcycle event and fundraiser to ...