Miller Green was a Freedom Rider, a group that challenged segregation on interstate transit in the face of violence and arrest. Green shared his story as a Freedom Rider at a Black History Month ...
Kelly Miller Smith and Rev ... Lewis would become the best-known among the youthful Freedom Riders, serving as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), speaking at ...
Hezekiah Watkins was the youngest Freedom Rider during the movement. In the 1960s, Watkins, who was 13, went to the bus station in downtown Jackson to watch the Freedom Riders arrive. He suddenly ...
The Freedom Ride 60th Anniversary Scholarship will provide $8,500 each year to two Indigenous undergraduate students for the duration of their degree. The moment Gary drank a beer in 1965 ...