B I R M I N G H A M, Ala., May 12 -- Riding into Montgomery to a hero'swelcome Saturday, Ed Blankenheim said he can still remember thehatred on the faces of the men and women who surrounded and ...

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 ...

On Mother’s Day, May 14, 1961, an interracial group of Freedom Riders riding buses through the South was attacked and firebombed by a white mob outside of Anniston, Alabama. Sign up for our flagship ...

Everyone likes to add their two cents worth to important projects. The National Park Service is asking the public to share their comments on the Freedom Riders National Monument Master Plan and ...

ST. LOUIS -- A mother who joined the Freedom Riders bus caravan traveling the nation in support of immigrants' rights did so to honor her son, Esteban Silva, a Mexican laborer who died this summer.

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 ...