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 ...

The civil rights pioneer Bernard Lafayette, who joined Freedom Rides and fought for voting rights in the Jim Crow South, has died at the age of 85. In the 1960s, Lafayette was a member of the Student ...

The freedom rides are credited with infusing the nonviolent U.S. civil rights movement with momentum.The story of the rides and the riders, as well as the tensions that flared between President John F ...

Aboard two buses, 13 men and women, some Negro and some white, set out from Washington, D.C., in early May. They called themselves “Freedom Riders.” They meant to demonstrate that segregated travel on ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Friday, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival began its run of a show about an important piece of Civil Rights history. “We Shall Someday” is a musical that follows three ...

After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause. Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound ...

Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82. In 1961, 18 ...