Hezekiah Watkins, a renowned civil rights leader and the youngest Freedom Rider ever arrested, will return to Owensboro for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hezekiah Watkins was just 13 years old when he was arrested in Jackson in 1961 along with dozens of other civil rights activists. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2026, Watkins received an official ...