Charles Person, the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. Person was only 18 when he joined. In 1961, the Freedom Riders challenged racial segregation in the deep South by riding ...

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Civil rights leader and Freedom Rider Hezekiah Watkins will speak at Kentucky Wesleyan College on March 12, sharing his ...

On Jan. 8, Charles Person, an original Freedom Rider, died at his home in Fayetteville, Ga., at age 82. A leader in the Civil Right Movement, Person had visited Anniston several times and came to ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans ...

This week marks the 53rd anniversary of the Freedom Rides, one of the pivotal moments of both the civil rights movement and American history. Inspired by the sit-ins that had spread across the nation ...

After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause. Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound ...

Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82. In 1961, 18 ...