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May 31, 2018 · May 4, 1961 to December 16, 1961. During the spring of 1961, student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals. Traveling on buses from Washington, D.C., to Jackson, Mississippi, the riders met violent opposition in the Deep South, garnering ...
Jul 18, 2020 · By Derrick Bryson Taylor. July 18, 2020. Representative John Lewis, who died on Friday at 80, was an imposing figure in American politics and the civil rights movement. But his legacy of...
Jul 12, 2007 · The Freedom Riders left Washington on May 4, 1961 and traveled without incident across Virginia and North Carolina. They encountered violence for the first time at the bus terminal in Rock Hill, South Carolina when several young white males beat black riders who attempted to use a “whites only” restroom.
Apr 1, 2023 · Aired April 1, 2023. Freedom Riders. Threatened. Attacked. Jailed. Could you get on the bus? From the Collections: Civil Rights | The African American Experience. Freedom Riders is the...
HISTORY. The Freedom Riders, Then and Now. Fighting racial segregation in the South, these activists were beaten and arrested. Where are they now, nearly fifty years later? Marian Smith Holmes....
Interviews with Mulholland, Zwerg, Lewis, and others appear in the upcoming documentary Freedom Riders, directed by Stanley Nelson and airing on WGBH’s American Experience May 16. It is a feat of moviemaking—distilling sixty-three separate rides into one dramatic narrative.
Mar 8, 2018 · Black History. How Freedom Rider Diane Nash Risked Her Life to Desegregate the South. Now an icon of the Civil Rights Movement, Nash was arrested dozens of times for non-violent...
