Today, Harbour acts as the unofficial archivist of the Freedom Rider Movement. He moved to Atlanta, GA in 1969. One of two women participants in the original 13-person Congress of Racial Equality ...

The Freedom Riders History In the spring of 1961, black and white civil rights activists rode buses to protest the segregationist policies of the Deep South (Marian Holmes, Brian Wolly, Photos ...

She said the late John Lewis, a civil rights activist and longtime congressman from Georgia and one of the 13 original Freedom Riders, was an inspiration in her life. In recent years Ponton was a ...

despite the Freedom Riders themselves arriving unarmed and in a nonviolent fashion. More: She was 13 when a beaten John Lewis arrived at her Montgomery family's home, seeking refuge The Montgomery ...

On May 4, 1961, a bus carrying black and white anti-segregation activists called the Freedom Riders rolled into Alabama and was immediately attacked by members of the KKK. This event was captured ...

John Lewis, the former Georgia congressman who died in 2020, was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders. Along their routes from Washington, D.C., and into the South, they faced violent attacks and ...

Mike Wiley works to bring history to the stage. The playwright and actor stars in the one-man show, “Breach of Peace: Freedom Riders of 1961,” at Children's Theatre of Charlotte through March 30.

Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, issued a statement Wednesday after the U.S. General Services Administration confirmed that the historic Montgomery Bus Station, home to the Freedom Riders Museum ...

Today, Harbour acts as the unofficial archivist of the Freedom Rider Movement. He moved to Atlanta, GA in 1969. One of two women participants in the original 13-person Congress of Racial Equality ...