The We Shall Someday Project marks the 65th anniversary of the Freedom Rides with arts events and civil rights discussions ...

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 ...

THROUGH THE 15TH IN CELEBRATION OF A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST BIRTHDAY. THE TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS HOSTED FREE ADMISSIONS. HEZEKIAH WATKINS IS A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, BEING CELEBRATED TODAY. WATKINS ...

Historic ruling fallout: The Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais decision altered how race can be considered in redistricting, raising concerns about weakened protections for minority voters. Freedom ...

Freedom Rider Lenora Taitt-Magubane said it’s sad to watch the freedoms she and others fought for be stripped away 65 years ...

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 ...

The Freedom Rides represented a major evolution in the tactics and strategy of the Civil Rights Movement. Movement leaders at the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Southern Christian Leadership ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joan Browning and Charles Person chat at Emory University in Atlanta, Fridy, July 26, 2024. They were Freedom Riders. activists ...

Joan Browning and Charles Person chat at Emory University in Atlanta, Fridy, July 26, 2024. They were Freedom Riders. activists who rode buses into the Deep South in 1961, aiming to desegregate ...