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 ...

The landmark site in Montgomery, Alabama, was deemed “not core to government operations,” and other stops in U.S. civil ...

In lieu of flowers, Person's family asks that donations be made in his name to the Freedom Riders Park Non-Endowed Fund. FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. - Charles Person, an Atlanta native known as the youngest ...

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 ...

"Person was an American hero that changed this country, in his name we must fight to not allow the country to retreat in any way toward the rights gained with the bloodshed of the Freedom Riders ...

“(The musical) Beginning in 1961 with the character Julius who decides to join the Freedom Riders, and travels all the way in time to 1992 when his son, his grandson, rather, is at college ...

The We Shall Someday Project is dedicated to the original Freedom Riders who fought and sacrificed bravely in the name of justice and freedom. “We Shall Someday” is an inspiring story of ...