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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 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...
When Southern Segregationists Gave Black Residents One-Way Bus Tickets North
Time via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA Greyhound bus used by Freedom Riders in 1961 Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getting Images In 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...
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 ...
Nashville Freedom Rider remembered for paving the way for many
WKRN articles via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The community is mourning the loss of Nashville native King Hollands, a local Freedom Rider who helped pave the way for civil rights. Hollands’ oldest daughter, Kisha ...
Racists bused Black mothers with many children to Cape Cod decades ago. Sound familiar?
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor some Black families used as pawns in a political ruse by White segregationists many decades ago,...