Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in ...

In 1961, the Freedom Riders helped pave the way for civil rights achievements such as the Voting Rights Act that is now being ...

During the NLC Convention, the Freedom Rider told young leaders to vote because the future is in their hands. During the 2024 New Leaders Council Convention, Charles Person, the youngest member to ...

Fifty years ago, America was struggling to implement the ideals of justice and equality set forth in our founding. The Freedom Rides, organized in the spring of 1961, were an interracial, nonviolent ...

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, ...

It didn’t get bad until the Trailways bus crossed the state line from Georgia into Alabama in May of 1961. A gang of white men boarded the bus in Anniston and started beating the handful of young ...

THROUGH THE 15TH IN CELEBRATION OF A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST BIRTHDAY. THE TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS HOSTED FREE ADMISSIONS. HEZEKIAH WATKINS IS A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, BEING CELEBRATED TODAY. WATKINS ...

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." From May until November 1961, more than ...