“He was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee with Diane Nash. He was a freedom ... Jr. was arrested during the Freedom Rides in 1961. In the PBS documentary Freedom ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s social justice movement was facing overwhelming obstacles, including a White backlash to Black progress. But King did something that eludes many of today’s leaders on the ...

Diane Nash, a civil rights activist who knew King, was a central figure of many of that movement’s most significant victories. She was a leader in both the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides ...

Glen Echo Park hadn't been an amusement park since 1968, but it had transitioned into a cultural destination for families in ...

Her first encounter with the South’s Jim Crow segregation laws occurred on her train ride to Mississippi ... Hedgeman suggested Myrlie Evers or Diane Nash as speakers. The committee selected ...

The following five stories are a great place to start if you're interested in learning about historic places, people and events that are tied to Shreveport and connected to the American civil rights ...