When the Freedom Riders rolled into Jackson in 1961, Mississippi responded with mass arrests — and the Riders answered with a ...

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 ...

73 year old Hezekiah Watkins now spends his days working at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Lee. He's not just an employee. He's a part of history. And so you grew up in the midst of the civil ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans ...