Charles Person was just 18 when he volunteered to join the Freedom Riders, who faced violent racism on their journey to ...

Connor encouraged the violence that met the CORE Freedom Riders at the Birmingham Trailways ... working on a television documentary investigating allegations of lawlessness and racial ...

Charles Person at his home in Fayetteville, Georgia on March 08. Person is one of only two surviving original 13 freedom riders from the history making 1961 civil rights effort. Person holds a ...

The Freedom Riders’ journey began on May 4 1961 when 18-year old Person and his fellow activists boarded two buses at Washington’s Greyhound station for a 17-day journey through the segregated ...

These self-proclaimed, 'Freedom Riders' challenged the mores of a racially segregated society by performing a disarmingly simple act.

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.