The event was called “Then and Now: What Has Changed?” and had guest speaker Hezekiah Watkins, who is the last surviving Freedom Rider. The Freedom Riders worked during the Civil Rights Movement to ...

MARKHAM, Ill. (WLS) -- Before moving to Chicago in 1963, he traveled across the Deep South, playing a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s. Miller Green was a Freedom Rider, a ...

ATLANTA — On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church to honor his life and work. Charles Person died earlier this ...

Video above shows how the holiday of Veterans Day began. FORT WAYNE, Ind. — The Fort Wayne-based Chapter 1 of The Freedom Riders of Indiana hosted a family-friendly motorcycle event and fundraiser to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MARKHAM, Ill. – A south suburban city ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Charles Person, one of the Civil Rights Movement’s original Freedom Riders, echoed organizers across Georgia when he urged a group of Generation Z and millenial activists to encourage ...

NEW HAVEN, Ind. (WANE) — Bikers rev their engines at Schnelker Park, ready to hit the road for the fifth annual Operation Enduring Freedom Ride and Rally. Hosted by The Freedom Riders of Indiana ...

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, issued a statement Wednesday after the U.S. General Services Administration confirmed that the historic Montgomery Bus Station, home to the Freedom Riders Museum, ...

Lewis’ cause attracts some of the most iconic civil rights figures of the 1960s; including Martin Luther King, Jr. (Guy Lockard), Ralph Abernathy (Brandon Michael Nase), Stokely Carmichael (Nygel D.