Wednesday, Gardner delved into the Civil Rights Movement, her own experiences growing up in Spokane and a crash course in ...

"Charles was a man of quiet strength, humility, and unwavering resolve. He believed deeply in the power of community, ...

He later married fellow Freedom Rider Joy Reagon. By the time 19-year-old John Lewis joined the 1961 CORE Freedom ride, he already had five arrests under his belt as a veteran of the Nashville ...

From #kunhardtfilmfoundation Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was ...

Bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961, he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal ...

Charles Person, known as the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. He passed away peacefully at his ...

John Lewis is the last surviving speaker from ... Vivian helped organise the Freedom Rides - a protest to integrate buses in the south - and later went on to lead the Southern Christian Leadership ...

He later married fellow Freedom Rider Joy Reagon. By the time 19-year-old John Lewis joined the 1961 CORE Freedom ride, he already had five arrests under his belt as a veteran of the Nashville ...

In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across ...

alongside activists that included future congressman John Lewis. Traveling on two buses, the Freedom Riders passed through Virginia and North Carolina without issue. In South Carolina, Lewis and ...