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

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

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

Charles Person, an original Freedom Rider, died at his home in Fayetteville, Ga., at age 82. A leader in the Civil Right ...

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 ...

Eugene "Bull" Connor was Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety in 1961 when the Freedom Riders came to town. He was known as an ultra-segregationist with close ties to the KKK. Connor ...

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

and a bus driver boycott forced the Freedom Riders to fly to New Orleans. But the news and images of the Alabama attacks, including a single photo from the Birmingham bus station melee that ...

When the bus reached the terminal in Birmingham, Person recalled 40 years ... Far from stopping the Freedom Riders on their first trip to call attention to Jim Crow laws in the Deep South, the ...