Anniston will commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Freedom Rides on May 9 with a daylong series of events honoring the ...

Jack Wells Activity Center was packed as the college welcomed civil rights leader and member of the Freedom Riders, Hezekiah Watkins. At only ...

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 ...

After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause. Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound ...

Everyone likes to add their two cents worth to important projects. The National Park Service is asking the public to share their comments on the Freedom Riders National Monument Master Plan and ...