MARKHAM, Ill. (WLS) -- Before moving to Chicago in 1963, he traveled across the Deep South, playing a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s. Miller Green was a Freedom Rider, a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Apollo Beach resident and prominent civil rights activist shares her story about being a Freedom Rider helping to desegregate ...
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 ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 12 -- Arriving to a hero's welcome, Ed Blankenheim said today he still recalls the hatred on the faces of the men and women who surrounded and burned his bus in Alabama 40 years ...
It didn’t get bad until the Trailways bus crossed the state line from Georgia into Alabama in May of 1961. A gang of white men boarded the bus in Anniston and started beating the handful of young ...
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