In Freedom Riders, Burks says she borrowed a line from ... He moved to West Africa in 1969, and changed his name to Kwame Ture in honor of African leaders Kwame Nkruma and Sekou Toure, later ...

Freedom Riders "wanted to be a part of this effort ... D.C. while "reading the names of the war dead," she says. Theresa Walker, 80, was arrested in New York City in 2000 during a protest over ...

On May 4, 1961, a bus carrying black and white anti-segregation activists called the Freedom Riders rolled into Alabama and was immediately attacked by members of the KKK. This event was captured ...

"[But] after living through all that segregation, name calling and isolation, I wouldn't live anywhere else but Bowraville," something she credits to the "Freedom Riders". It was in the middle of ...

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 ...

Now, a new scholarship has been launched honouring their legacy. Freedom Riders returned to the university for a special ceremony to remember their now legendary 15-day road trip. Inspired by ...