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 ...

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, once arrested in Mississippi as a Freedom Rider during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, ...

The event was called “Then and Now: What Has Changed?” and had guest speaker Hezekiah Watkins, who is the last surviving Freedom Rider. The Freedom Riders worked during the Civil Rights Movement to ...

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, issued a statement Wednesday after the U.S. General Services Administration confirmed that the historic Montgomery Bus Station, home to the Freedom Riders Museum, ...

Peter Ackerberg , was a âÄúFreedom RiderâÄù in Mississippi in 1961 and in celebration of Black History Month he spoke at the Southeast Library on Saturday. Freedom Riders were the men and women who ...

When John Moody boarded the Greyhound bus to Montgomery, Ala., in 1961 as a Freedom Rider, he said he didn’t know what to expect. He said he could not have predicted that he would be thrown in jail ...

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