Every great once in a while, something like Stanley Nelson’s wonderful documentary Freedom Riders appears and is so good that it exhausts all common versions of praise. In it, Nelson and his crew take ...
ST. LOUIS -- A mother who joined the Freedom Riders bus caravan traveling the nation in support of immigrants' rights did so to honor her son, Esteban Silva, a Mexican laborer who died this summer.
After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause. Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound ...