Thousands of people took to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to take in history and ...
Bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961, he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal ...
Charles Person, an original Freedom Rider, died at his home in Fayetteville, Ga., at age 82. A leader in the Civil Right ...
Charles Person was just 18 when he volunteered to join the Freedom Riders, who faced violent racism on their journey to ...
On May 18, she bantered with the ultra-segregationist Birmingham Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor as he drove the Nashville riders from jail back to the Tennessee state line. In Freedom ...
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Youngest original 'Freedom Rider' dies in Fayetteville at 82Charles Person, known as the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. He passed away peacefully at his ...
In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across ...
On May 18, she bantered with the ultra-segregationist Birmingham Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor as he drove the Nashville riders from jail back to the Tennessee state line. In Freedom ...
Mr. Person’s second wife didn’t know he had been a Freedom Rider until about a decade after they were married, when he opened up during a visit to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute ...
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