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Birmingham’s Catherine Burks-Brooks, on 60th anniversary, Recalls Her Historic Ride for...

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By Michael Sznajderman Alabama Newscenter In her police mugshot taken 60 years ago in Jackson, Mississippi, Catherine Burks-Brooks looks straight into the camera, without fear or...

Inside the Restored Greyhound Bus That Celebrates Freedom Rides

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By Cynthia Silva CNN A restored vintage Greyhound bus was unveiled last month to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides. The bus, which was in service...

60 Years Later, Freedom Riders Roll into Birmingham

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Solomon Crenshaw Jr. For The Birmingham Times  Dozens of patrons visited the parking lot of the Birmingham Public Library’s Central Branch last week to tour a...

Alabama Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks recalls her civil rights journey

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By Michael Sznadjerman Alabama Newscenter In her police mugshot taken almost 60 years ago in Jackson, Mississippi, Catherine Burks-Brooks looks straight into the camera, without fear...

Bruce Boynton, who inspired 1961 ‘Freedom Rides’, dies at 83

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The Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark “Freedom Rides” of 1961, died...

A ‘civil rights camp’ teaches kids a history they’re not learning...

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By Avis Thomas-Lester The Hechinger ReportTrevion Williams (left) and Jashun Griffith (right), both 13, students at Crystal Springs Middle School in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, chat at...