Charles Person, who has died aged 82, was the youngest of the civil rights activists – seven black and six white Americans – ...

More: Freedom Riders traveled deep into the South in 1961. Klansmen beat them, then set their bus on fire. The Morehouse ...

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in his mid-20s when he rose to prominence as the father of the American Civil Rights Movement ...

"Charles was a man of quiet strength, humility, and unwavering resolve. He believed deeply in the power of community, ...

Bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961, he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal ...

From #kunhardtfilmfoundation Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was ...

Kristina Estle, director of the Underground Railroad Museum, wants area residents to remember and understand the cause that ...

Thousands of people took to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to take in history and ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, died last week at his home in Fayetteville. He was 82. ( AJC) ...

In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across ...