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Several free events celebrate new exhibit at Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery - al.com

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Several free events celebrate new exhibit at Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery al.com By Amber Acker, al.com View full size The opening marks the 51st anniversary of the freedom riders event at Montgomery's historic Greyhound Bus Station. The exhibit will feature works of art from Alabama artists. MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- The Alabama ...

Several free events celebrate new exhibit at Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery - al.com

Freedom Rides: a time of bravery - The Tennessean

Freedom Rides: a time of bravery The Tennessean The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organized a group of “Freedom Riders,” both blacks and whites, who would travel from Washington to New Orleans on two buses, a Greyhound and a Trailways, as a demonstration against color barriers.

Freedom Rides: a time of bravery - The Tennessean

Helping a Young Girl With Cancer - KFYR-TV

Helping a Young Girl With Cancer KFYR-TV This weekend, the Freedom Riders are organizing a benefit for a young girl with cancer. Every year the Freedom Riders organize a fundraiser for someone fighting with cancer. This year they`re doing it for five-year-old Kaydense Miller.

Helping a Young Girl With Cancer - KFYR-TV

Freedom Riders return to VR to lay wreath - Times-Georgian

Freedom Riders return to VR to lay wreath Times-Georgian by Spencer Crawford/The Villa Rican A wreath was laid Monday morning at the site of the former Villa Rica bus station where a group of Freedom Riders had a brief, relatively uneventful stop in 1961 on their way toward a more violent ride the farther ...

Freedom Riders return to VR to lay wreath - Times-Georgian

Villa Rica to commemorate Freedom Riders anniversary - Times-Georgian

Villa Rica to commemorate Freedom Riders anniversary Times-Georgian by Spencer Crawford/Villa Rican Several of the 1961 Freedom Riders who braved violent protests and incarceration during their 1961 civil rights bus ride through the South will be in Villa Rica Monday for an anniversary celebration.

Villa Rica to commemorate Freedom Riders anniversary - Times-Georgian

Swap meet set for Spartan Arena - Rutland Herald

Swap meet set for Spartan Arena Rutland Herald The Southwest Freedom Riders are hosting their annual Rutland Spring Swap Meet from 9 am to 5 pm Sunday. The event will be held at the Spartan Arena at the Diamond Run Mall in Rutland Town. There will a bike show, a tattoo contest and all kinds of ...

Swap meet set for Spartan Arena - Rutland Herald

Upcoming ride to benefit Freedom Park - The Rome Observer

Upcoming ride to benefit Freedom Park The Rome Observer 11 and the Camden Cycle Riders are preparing for a busy fundraising season. The first event will be a Memorial Day ride to not only pay homage to all veterans, but raise much needed funding to pave the way to completion of Freedom Park and create a ...

Upcoming ride to benefit Freedom Park - The Rome Observer

Crime History: Mob blows up Freedom Riders bus - Washington Examiner

Crime History: Mob blows up Freedom Riders bus Washington Examiner On this day, May 14, in 1961, a bus filled with Freedom Riders was fire-bombed on Mother's Day near Anniston, Ala. Ten days earlier, 13 people -- seven blacks and six whites -- left DC in two buses to challenge segregated bus facilities in the South.

Crime History: Mob blows up Freedom Riders bus - Washington Examiner

The Taste of Freedom - Daily Beast

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The Taste of Freedom Daily Beast From the Flotilla, to the Nakba Day protests, to the Palestinian Freedom Riders, to weekly protests against the Wall, Israel showed time and again that it doesn't “do Gandhi well.” Non-violent resistance is proving successful, albeit toward limited ... and more »

The Taste of Freedom - Daily Beast

Freedom Riders share their stories; students embrace history - Jackson Clarion Ledger

Freedom Riders share their stories; students embrace history Jackson Clarion Ledger Four of the Freedom Riders (from left) Bob Zellner, Delores Lynch Williams, Margaret Leonard and Hezekiah Watkins, talk to students at Northwest Rankin High School during a visit Friday to the school in Flowood. / Photos by Rick Guy/The Clarion-Ledger ... and more »

Freedom Riders share their stories; students embrace history - Jackson Clarion Ledger