by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 22, 2026 | Press Coverage
A ceremony in downtown Rock Hill Thursday honored and retraced the steps of the Freedom Riders, activists who rode buses into the Jim Crow-era South in 1961 to push for desegregation. Read Full Article
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 21, 2026 | Press Coverage
Sixty-five years after the “Freedom Riders” boarded buses in Washington, to New Orleans in the fight against segregation, a coalition of faith and civic groups are following the same route for a 12-state trip over eight days. Robbie Thomas, daughter of Henry “Hank”...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 21, 2026 | Press Coverage
More than six decades after courageous young activists boarded buses in Washington, D.C., to challenge segregation in the South, a new generation of Freedom Riders is taking off on a journey of their own to remind Americans that the struggle for equality, justice and...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 20, 2026 | Emails
We owe them our democracy — and we owe it to them to take this journey. Friends, We’ve been on The Ride for two days. Leaving the old Greyhound station in D.C., where the original Freedom Riders boarded in 1961, put the stakes of this journey into focus...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 20, 2026 | Press Coverage
A group of original Freedom Riders, their descendants and civil rights leaders is retracing the 1961 Freedom Ride route, with a stop in Atlanta on Friday, 65 years later. The 12-day tour began in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 18 and is scheduled to visit 19 cities across...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 20, 2026 | Press Coverage
PETERSBURG, Va. — Some of the original Freedom Riders from the summer of 1961 arrived to great fanfare in Petersburg on Tuesday morning, returning to a bus station that was once segregated as part of an effort to re-trace their original route.They got a far different...
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 20, 2026 | Press Coverage
Sixty-five years after the original Freedom Rides, a national bus tour is retracing the historic route through the South to encourage voter turnout ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. “The Ride” comes to Anniston on Oct. 24. Read Full Article
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 20, 2026 | Press Coverage
The Ride will stop at VSU on October 20 as part of a national journey encouraging voter participation and civic engagement. Read Full Article
by Vote Common Good Team | Oct 18, 2026 | Emails
There’s singing on the bus right now. Friends, Today is a day of joy — The Ride left Washington, D.C., from the historic Greyhound station where thirteen of the original Freedom Riders boarded a bus 65 years...
