The bus passengers assaulted that day were Freedom Riders, among the first of more than 400 volunteers who traveled throughout the South on regularly scheduled buses for seven months in 1961 to ...

In 1961, Abernathy's First Baptist Church was ... Abernathy to respond to Robert Kennedy's complaint that the Freedom Riders were embarrassing the United States in front of the world, Abernathy ...

the youngest of the Freedom Riders for civil rights in 1961. He took a blow to the head a few days later in Birmingham. The buses finally were integrated, life went on, and it wasn’t until last ...

Grandville — History came to life for Grandville High School students last week as a civil rights activist visited students.

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.

The station became a historical landmark in 1961 after Freedom Riders were attacked there by white supremacists during the civil rights movement. The administration had said it was seeking to ...