Every great once in a while, something like Stanley Nelson’s wonderful documentary Freedom Riders appears and is so good that it exhausts all common versions of praise. In it, Nelson and his crew take ...

Presented in a concert format, this musical experience explores the true story of the interracial group of young activists who risked their lives in 1961 to challenge segregation in the American South ...

When John Moody boarded the Greyhound bus to Montgomery, Alabama, 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 ...

Though written nearly a decade ago and so far only workshopped at the former New York Musicals Festival, Richard Allen and Taran Gray’s “Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical,” about a group of ...

Fredericksburg, Virginia’s new Civil Rights Trail titled “Freedom, A Work in Progress,” offers unique insights into the ...

ANNISTON — The Anniston City Council received updates Tuesday evening on improvements at key civil rights landmarks during a work session ahead of its regular meeting, where it also recognized a local ...

Some memories remain etched in our minds for a lifetime. I was 10 during the summer of 1961. It was a summer of civil unrest in the southern United States. Freedom Riders, activists on Greyhound buses ...

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 ...

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