Every great once in a while, something like Stanley Nelson’s wonderful documentary Freedom Riders appears and is so good that it exhausts all common versions of praise. In it, Nelson and his crew take ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans ...

Students leave messages on a poster after watching a documentary movie about the Freedom Riders of the civil rights movement. Original riders Joan Trumpauer-Mulholland and Dion Diamond answered ...

After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause. Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound ...

B I R M I N G H A M, Ala., May 12 -- Riding into Montgomery to a hero'swelcome Saturday, Ed Blankenheim said he can still remember thehatred on the faces of the men and women who surrounded and ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who were battered, bloodied and nearly killed as they ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. FREEDOM RIDERS: The Civil Rights Musical is coming to City College Center ...

Person at home in Fayetteville, Georgia, in March 2024 - Michael S Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Charles Person, who has died aged 82, was the youngest of the civil rights activists – seven ...

The cast for = Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical, has been officially revealed. This musical event will take place at the City College Center for the Arts in Aaron Davis Hall – Marian Anderson ...