Tag: Freedom Riders
Rev. Amos Brown Brings Wisdom, Guidance to Cal’s Reparations Task Force
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media
The Rev. Amos C. Brown is vice-chair and the senior member serving on the nine-member California Task Force...
Nashville Freedom Rider Ernest ‘Rip’ Patton Dies at 81
By Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press
Ernest “Rip” Patton, a member of the Nashville Freedom Riders and civil rights leader, has died, the Freedom Rides Museum...
Bloody Sunday Memorial Honors Late Civil Rights Giants
The commemoration of a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights for African Americans honored four giants of the civil rights movement who...
Bruce Boynton, Who Inspired 1961 Freedom Rides, Dies at 83
AP Wire Service
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark "Freedom Rides" of 1961, died...
Petition to Rename Space Once Honoring Robert E. Lee Could Honor Leah Chase
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor
A petition has been launched to rename Lee Circle in New Orleans after famed restaurant owner Leah Chase....
