Join The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) as they present their newest exhibit Freedom Riders, a celebration of the diverse and courageous freedom fighters from the Montgomery Bus Boycotters of 1955 and the Freedom Riders of 1961. Through beautifully haunting oil and canvas representations of the activists mugshots, master artist Charlotta Jansen brings to light the epic story of these extraordinary everyday […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Montgomery’s former Greyhound Bus Station is reopening as a museum honoring the Freedom Riders on the 50th anniversary of the day they were attacked in Alabama’s capital city. Several of the original Freedom Riders are attending the dedication Friday. One of them, Jim Zwerg of Tucson, Ariz., says the new museum is […]
