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 ...
"[But] after living through all that segregation, name calling and isolation, I wouldn't live anywhere else but Bowraville," something she credits to the "Freedom Riders". It was in the middle of ...