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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a result, the Interstate Commerce Commission outlawed segregation in interstate bus travel in a ruling, more specific than the original Supreme Court mandate, that took effect that ...

Originally produced as a documentary in 2010. Companion book: Freedom riders: 1961 and the struggle for racial justice / Raymond Arsenault, Oxford University Press, c2011 ; Abridged ed. Based in part ...

UNC-TV aired "Freedom Riders" on May 16 about "the powerful, harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever." UNC-TV aired "Freedom Riders" on May 16 ...