gab1930s·Apr 18, 2024Freedom Riders — During Racial Segregation in AmericaDuring the early 1960s, the United States was a nation deeply scarred by the lines of racial segregation. It was within this context that…
Dr. K·Feb 24, 2024R.I.P “Rip” Patton: A Tennessee Freedom-Rider Sings His Final HymnDecidnos las canciones de un pueblo y os diremos sus leyes, sus costumbres y su historia.
Phil Garber·Oct 30, 2023Jews As Rare As Diamonds In Florida State LegislatureThere is one Jewish lawmaker in the Florida state legislature and none in Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana or…
Anya Gopalakrishnan·Jun 15, 2022Should Freedom Always be Absolute?America is known for being a free and accepting nation. Everybody has rights and nobody can take them away. While this is true, there have…
InBallasts for the MindbyRaymond Williams, PhD·Apr 20, 2021Review: Buses Are A Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person with Richard RookerThere are many unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Charles Person, the author of Buses Are A Comin’, is one…
Karen E Quinones Miller·Feb 25, 2021Freedom Riders — Warriors in some of the Civil Rights Bloodiest Battles(originally written 11/2013, updated 02/2021)
Sheena·Feb 12, 2021Mary HamiltonToday, I’m once again going to talk about someone who we know is Black that some of you may not know about. Her name is Mary Hamilton. Ms…
Bradley Neece·Aug 1, 2020The Freedom Riders, the KKK, and the Compassion of a 12-Year-Old GirlTaking a social media stand against racism in 2020 is something altogether different than taking a public stand during the Jim Crow era…