The House took action against three Tennessee Democrats for leading a gun-control protest on the House floor after the Covenant school shooting.
Author: Melissa Brown
Freedom Riders traveled deep into the South in 1961. Klansmen beat them, then set their bus on fire.
The Freedom Ride movement almost ended in Alabama on May 14, 1961, when a group of Riders nearly died on a bus set ablaze by Klansmen.