RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Two former Freedom Riders are helping to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the trip through the Deep South that challenged racial segregation in public transportation systems.

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Trailways Bus Center in Shreveport was segregated from the moment it opened on June 28, 1948, until the city’s civil rights movement finally tipped the scales and ...

In 1961, the Freedom Riders helped pave the way for civil rights achievements such as the Voting Rights Act that is now being gutted by the Supreme Court and the Republican Party.

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer who inspired the “Freedom Rides," has died at the age of 83. Former Alabama state Sen. Hank Sanders confirmed Boynton's passing Tuesday.

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 ...

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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 ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans ...