ANNISTON — The Anniston City Council received updates Tuesday evening on improvements at key civil rights landmarks during a work session ahead of its regular meeting, where it also recognized a local ...

The old Greyhound bus station on Gurnee Avenue was bustling with activity Tuesday morning as National Park Service officials and planners were in town to solicit public input for a master plan for the ...

Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82. In 1961, 18 ...

On Mother’s Day, May 14, 1961, an interracial group of Freedom Riders riding buses through the South was attacked and firebombed by a white mob outside of Anniston, Alabama. Sign up for our flagship ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who were battered, bloodied and nearly killed as they traveled across the South in 1961, helping the civil rights movement gain momentum ...

B I R M I N G H A M, Ala., May 12 -- Riding into Montgomery to a hero'swelcome Saturday, Ed Blankenheim said he can still remember thehatred on the faces of the men and women who surrounded and ...