Mosaic Templars Cultural Center

Get on the Bus: Commemorating 50 Years of Riding for Freedom will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 W. Ninth St., Little Rock.

Speakers at the event -- a celebration of civil rights activists known as freedom riders who challenged racial segregation in the South in 1961 -- include William "Bill" Hansen, former director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Little Rock, John Kirk, author of Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas, and freedom riders David Meyers and Winoah Beamer.

Admission is free. For more information click here.