New mural unveiled at Montgomery’s Freedom Rides Museum
In honor of the 64th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, a new community mural has been unveiled at the Freedom Rides Museum in downtown Montgomery.
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Alabama Shakespeare Festival Presents World Premiere of “Freedom Rider”
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery is presenting the world premiere of Ricardo Khan’s Freedom Rider. Performances run through April 24.
Alabama Tourism Department Launches Civil Rights Podcast
Alabama’s state tourism agency has launched a podcast that both tells stories about the civil rights movement and encourages people to visit places linked to the era.
Several Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides
On May 4, 1961, the Freedom Riders began their journey to the segregated south in hopes to desegregate bus terminals. Now, 60 years later, several city and state leaders along with members of the community gathered at the same place those Freedom Riders arrived at here in Montgomery, to commemorate the anniversary. “John Lewis and I desegregated a Greyhound bus…
Civil Rights Pioneer Bruce Boynton Honored
An unheralded pioneer of the civil rights movement is being recognized in his native Alabama. A ceremony will be held May 18 honoring 80-year-old Bruce Carver Boynton of Selma. Boynton is a black man who was arrested for sitting in the whites-only section of a bus station restaurant in 1958. His conviction and appeal resulted in an important Supreme Court…
