An Apollo Beach resident and prominent civil rights activist shares her story about being a Freedom Rider helping to desegregate airports in the 1960s.

MARKHAM, Ill. (WLS) -- Before moving to Chicago in 1963, he traveled across the Deep South, playing a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s. Miller Green was a Freedom Rider, a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 12 -- Arriving to a hero's welcome, Ed Blankenheim said today he still recalls the hatred on the faces of the men and women who surrounded and burned his bus in Alabama 40 years ...

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 ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. Person was only 18 when he joined. In 1961, the Freedom Riders challenged racial segregation in the deep South by riding ...

It didn’t get bad until the Trailways bus crossed the state line from Georgia into Alabama in May of 1961. A gang of white men boarded the bus in Anniston and started beating the handful of young ...

Lewis’ cause attracts some of the most iconic civil rights figures of the 1960s; including Martin Luther King, Jr. (Guy Lockard), Ralph Abernathy (Brandon Michael Nase), Stokely Carmichael (Nygel D.

Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who were battered, bloodied and nearly killed as they traveled across the South in 1961, helping the civil rights movement gain momentum ...