A film documenting the 1961 Freedom Riders movement contains never-before-seen footage of a bus burning outside Anniston after it was attacked by a local mob. The footage of the bus burning, recorded ...

Join us for a special screening of PBS’s “American Experience: Freedom Riders,” an inspirational 2010 documentary by veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson. The 1961 Freedom Rides are a focus of the current ...

"Freedom Riders," a documentary about people who risked beatings and imprisonment in the early 1960s in the effort to desegregate public transportation in the deep South, will be screened tonight at ...

Passengers aboard one of the first two Freedom Rides buses escaped the vehicle after it was set on fire by angry whites outside of Anniston, Ala., on May 14, 1961. They had experienced other violence ...

PORT ALLEN, LA (WAFB) - In celebration of Black History Month, the West Baton Rouge Museum will present the Emmy-award winning documentary "Freedom Riders" followed by a discussion. The event will ...

Fifteen days ago, a group of American heroes invaded Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound and took out the world’s most notorious terrorist. Tonight, in a two-hour Public Broadcasting System special, ...

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 ...

Although her story has been told countless times over the last 50 years, it’s hard for Janie McKinney to remember all the details of that day in 1961. “Now it’s like it didn’t even happen to me, like ...

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 ...

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 ...