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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...
Driver for 1961 Freedom Riders, Herbert Young, dies
theGrio via AOL· 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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...