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Reverse Freedom Riders: Political pawns of the past mirror current Cape Cod migrant crisis
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHYANNIS — It was 2 a.m. in 1962 and Doloras DaLuz, 88, along with her late husband Joseph DaLuz,...
Driver for 1961 Freedom Riders, Herbert Young, dies
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHerbert Young was 25 years old in 1961 when he made history busing Freedom Riders through Alabama’s capital city of […] The post Driver for 1961 Freedom...
Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina
Associated Press 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...
Former Atlanta mayor compares lacrosse team to civil rights activists at DSU graduation
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Freedom Riders boarded their first buses in Washington, D.C., in May of 1961. It was the height...
‘Freedom Riders’ in Alabama | Enquirer historic front pages from May 21
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHistory from the front pages of The Cincinnati Enquirer from May 21 includes “Freedom Riders” and a...
When Southern Segregationists Gave Black Residents One-Way Bus Tickets North
Time via AOL· 1 month agoA Greyhound bus used by Freedom Riders in 1961 Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getting Images In the...
Xavier using $2.5M grant to convert dorm that housed Freedom Riders into STEM center
theGrio via AOL· 2 years agoA new $2.5 million grant will transform Xavier University of Lousiana’s St. Michael’s Residence Hall...
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...
Freedom Riders to celebrate 62 year anniversary, provide updates on Gurnee project
The Anniston Star, Ala. via Yahoo News· 12 months 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 ...