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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Historians acknowledge Farmer's central visionary role in bringing the Freedom Rides to fruition. In 1966, Farmer eventually left CORE and the Civil Rights Movement, citing its growing ...

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

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

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