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Reverse Freedom Riders: Cape Cod migrant crisis evokes 50-year-old memories of similar ploy
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHYANNIS, Mass. — It was 2 a.m. in 1962 and Doloras DaLuz, 88, along with her late husband Joseph...
Freedom riders’ 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina
theGrio via AOL· 2 years agoLegendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a...
Pensacola Beach awards gala honors Freedom Riders who took activism to the air
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Freedom Riders famously braved beatings, arrests and bombings in the 1960s to challenge the...
Businessman Herbert Young, bus driver for Freedom Riders, dies
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHerbert Young was 25 in the spring of 1961 when he drove a bus through angry white mobs in...
When Southern Segregationists Gave Black Residents One-Way Bus Tickets North
Time via AOL· 2 months agoA Greyhound bus used by Freedom Riders in 1961 Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getting Images In the...
In Nashville, Freedom Rider King Hollands calmly fought racial segregation, memorial set
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 3 months agoKisha Turner cradles a weathered gray tin cup. There are a lot of items and spaces that echo her...
'No Kings But Us' explores music, history and civil rights from DJ Screw to John Lewis
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA cluster of figures — yellow line drawings etched on a black background — animate the massive...
Freedom Riders to celebrate 62 year anniversary, provide updates on Gurnee project
The Anniston Star, Ala. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 9—Sixty-two years after the mob violence against bus passengers that put Anniston on the civil rights map, there are still stories to hear, stories to tell. Two of the men who were the target ...
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Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFreedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina
Travel Through American History
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 9 months agoJoin our fellow travelers on a fascinating, exclusive tour that will bring you face to face with one of the greatest movements in American politics. This...