Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport kicks off its lecture series for 2026 with ‘” America’s First Freedom Rider’”on Thursday, Feb. 19 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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 ...

When the Freedom Riders rolled into Jackson in 1961, Mississippi responded with mass arrests — and the Riders answered with a strategy that reshaped the civil rights movement.

Originally produced as a documentary in 2010. Companion book: Freedom riders: 1961 and the struggle for racial justice / Raymond Arsenault, Oxford University Press, c2011 ; Abridged ed. Based in part ...

“It is actually to celebrate America 250. So, as we go into this year’s celebrations and parties you have to think about what ...