After three days on a Greyhound bus, Lela Mae Williams was just an hour from her destination—Hyannis, Mass.—when she asked the bus driver to pull over. She needed to change into her finest clothes.

Moving migrants from Texas to Democratic strongholds is not new. The Reverse Freedom Rides of the 1960s hold lessons for activists of today. Early in the morning of September 15, two buses full of ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Civil rights attorneys are calling the relocation of migrants from Texas last week to Massachusets a “shameless political stunt,” but the strategy of governors relocating ...

As human rights advocates denounce efforts by Republicans to send dozens of buses full of asylum seekers to sanctuary cities across the United States, we look at the related history of the Reverse ...

The relocation of about 50 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, initiated last week by Florida’s governor, has revived memories of strikingly similar tactics employed by southern ...

WGBH News is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.

In 1962, U.S. Department of Justice lawyer Richard K. Parsons was working on an East Carroll Parish case that allowed African-American voters to cast ballots for the first time in 40 years. At some ...

The relocation of about 50 migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, initiated this week by Florida's governor, has revived memories of strikingly similar tactics employed by southern ...