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An Iron Range matriarch is gone. Mary Anderson, the feisty former longtime mayor of the "Republic of Kinney," died Wednesday afternoon at Heritage Manor Health Care Center in Chisholm. She was 92. "This is like losing an institution," U.S. Rep. J...

Restored Hibbing bus tells story of the Freedom Riders The vintage Greyhound now is part of the Freedom Rides Museum in Alabama  July 11, 2021 — 7:50pm Text size Copy shortlink: Dorothy Walker wanted a vintage bus to help tell the story of the Freedom Riders, a tale of sacrifice, bravery and unfathomable violence — but also one of hope. As the director of the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, Ala., Walker combed the internet and made countless phone calls. She chased leads for a midcentury passenger b...

Sixty years ago, on May 14, 1961, one of two buses carrying an interracial group of Freedom Riders was firebombed on the outskirts of Anniston, Ala. The riders barely escaped with their lives, only to be beaten by the mob outside. Of lesser import but nonetheless seared into America’s collective memory was the fate of the bus. Its charred hulk became an indelible symbol of just how far the Southerners would go to preserve white supremacy, even 15 years after the Supreme Court found segregation in interstate transportation to be unconstitutional. Image by Freedom Rides Museum Last week, a re...