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

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 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 ...

Person and Peck were both knocked unconscious and they and the other freedom riders were dragged to the back of the bus. When the bus arrived in Birmingham, the riders were met by an angry mob ...

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

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s social justice movement was facing overwhelming obstacles, including a White backlash to Black ...

• Thursdays at the Museum: 1 p.m. Thursdays, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, self-guided visit of our collections for ...

George Wallace of Alabama had personally and bodily tried to stop the racial integration of the University of Alabama, King had been thrown in jail in Birmingham, and civil rights leader Medgar ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was transformed from a private citizen into a public figure one afternoon in early December 1955. He ...

Montgomery Alabama is really the birthplace of Civil Rights Movement. There are five important experiences on the U.S. Civil ...