Freedom Rides of 1961: Challenging Segregation in the American South
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Decorated civil rights historian and campus champion Ray Arsenault to retire
Professor Ray Arsenault and Judge Charles Williams attending last year’s ASALH yearly…
C.T. Vivian, Civil Rights Leader And Champion Of Nonviolent Action, Dies At 95
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This Freedom Rider was shot at, attacked, and put on death row—all by 20 years old
By Heather Giligan, TIMELINE Joan Trumpauer spent ten days in a Mississippi jail in the…
An original Freedom Rider reflects on the struggle
BY: TARYN FINLEY, THE ROOT In 1961, 19-year-old Howard University student Hank Thomas…