B I R M I N G H A M, Ala., May 12 -- Riding into Montgomery to a hero'swelcome Saturday, Ed Blankenheim said he can still remember thehatred on the faces of the men and women who surrounded and ...

Bernard Lafayette speaks Thursday, 5:30 p.m. at Freedom Rides Museum Talk is free with paid admission to museum Bernard Lafayette Jr. remembers the blood, the screams and the pain inflicted on Freedom ...

On Mother’s Day, May 14, 1961, an interracial group of Freedom Riders riding buses through the South was attacked and firebombed by a white mob outside of Anniston, Alabama. Sign up for our flagship ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS -- A mother who joined the Freedom Riders bus caravan traveling the nation in support of immigrants' rights did so to honor her son, Esteban Silva, a Mexican laborer who died this summer.

Seconds before a mob of white segregationists attacked Jim Zwerg and other Freedom Riders in front of a Montgomery bus station, he said a simple, silent prayer. “I asked God to be with me, and to give ...

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 ...