Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael) was a civil rights activist ... he participated in his first Freedom Ride. The Freedom Rides were integrated bus trips through the American South in protest of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Rep. John Lewis said he teared up Friday when he walked through the old Greyhound station where he was beaten and knocked unconscious... MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Freedom ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Forty-seven years ago, 14 black students from Tennessee State University were beaten and arrested during the Freedom Rides that helped integrate the South. For their courage ...

Rather, it was developed in large part by a black radical communist, Stokely Carmichael, a figure so extreme that even the Black Panthers kicked him out. Truly, there is nothing new under the sun.

We lost John Lewis, a fellow Georgian, in 2020. He was 21 when he was with the Freedom Riders. He later became a U.S. Congressman representing our state. We lost Charles Person earlier this year ...

They called themselves “Freedom Riders.” They meant to demonstrate that segregated travel on interstate buses, even though banned by an I.C.C. ruling, is still enforced throughout much of the ...

AT 85, HIS PASSION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE HASN’T WANED in the 60 years since HE WAS ARRESTED FOR TAKING PART IN THE FREEDOM RIDES IN 1961. GLEASON BECAME AN ORDAINED MINISTER, MOVED TO CHICAGO AND ...

Norman C. Francis, the trailblazing former president of Xavier University of Louisiana, continues to leave his mark on the storied New Orleans institution as it celebrates its 100th anniversary ...

A civil rights leader who helped organize the Freedom Riders movement and founded the Congress of Racial Equality, James Farmer spent the latter part of his life in Fredericksburg, captivating ...