"[But] after living through all that segregation, name calling and isolation, I wouldn't live anywhere else but Bowraville," something she credits to the "Freedom Riders". It was in the middle of ...
Although Mr Williams was unable to join his fellow Freedom Riders for the entirety of the journey, he remembers meeting up with the group in Bowraville, where Aboriginal people were banned from ...
Freedom Rider and Gumbaynggirr man Gary Williams defied segregation in the small town of Bowraville, in the Nambucca Valley. Explainer: What was Australia's Freedom Ride? Freedom Rider and ...
Two groups sat behind signs “Greyhound” and “Trailways” on a stage in Amherst in a scene recreating the spring 1961 bus journey of the Freedom Riders and their historic stand for equality ...
The Freedom Rides demonstrated the power of nonviolent direct action to achieve strategic victory. Along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the student lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 ...
On May 4, 1961, a bus carrying black and white anti-segregation activists called the Freedom Riders rolled into Alabama and was immediately attacked by members of the KKK. This event was captured ...