Alabama Gov. John Patterson refused to guarantee state protection if the group continued on their route to New Orleans, and a bus driver boycott forced the Freedom Riders to fly to New Orleans.

These integrated groups. While the Freedom Rides generated a violent backlash, one pro segregationist group had something much more devious in mind. A New Orleans chapter of the White Citizens ...

Over the next few hours, more Freedom Riders, including Mr. Peck ... They struggled to find another bus willing to take them to New Orleans. They finally boarded a plane. After a few days of ...

The Freedom Riders were met with further violence when ... and the riders finished their trip to New Orleans by plane instead of bus. Over the next few months, hundreds of other activists took ...

In this celebrated land of the free and home of the brave, freedom places residents in harms way. When one considers the ...

The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...

Charles Person was just 18, a freshman at Morehouse College, when he joined the Freedom Riders movement, boarding a New Orleans-bound Trailways bus in Washington on May 4, 1961. Though the ...

But they could not find another bus willing to take them to New Orleans and had to complete the journey by air. Freedom Riders sit on their luggage at a bus station, Birmingham, Alabama ...