U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, issued a statement Wednesday after the U.S. General Services Administration confirmed that the historic Montgomery Bus Station, home to the Freedom Riders Museum, ...

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 ...

Everyone likes to add their two cents worth to important projects. The National Park Service is asking the public to share their comments on the Freedom Riders National Monument Master Plan and ...

ST. LOUIS -- A mother who joined the Freedom Riders bus caravan traveling the nation in support of immigrants' rights did so to honor her son, Esteban Silva, a Mexican laborer who died this summer.

On Mother’s Day, May 14, 1961, an interracial group of Freedom Riders riding buses through the South was attacked and firebombed by a white mob outside of Anniston, Alabama. Sign up for our flagship ...