Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who were battered, bloodied and nearly killed as they ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. Person was only 18 when he joined. In 1961, the Freedom Riders challenged racial segregation in the deep South by ...

I think it’s not only good for us, but good for the city.” Person, one of the original 13 Freedom Riders, never made it to Montgomery 55 years ago. He and 12 other Freedom Riders set out from ...

The late congressman John Lewis was among the original group of 13 Freedom Riders. Others who rode buses into the South included civil rights activists Stokely Carmichael, Diane Nash, Tom Hayden ...

In 1961, Person was one of the 13 Freedom riders whose bus was scheduled to come through Anniston en route to Birmingham. They expected to have trouble in Birmingham, but members of the Ku Klux ...

Today, Harbour acts as the unofficial archivist of the Freedom Rider Movement. He moved to Atlanta, GA in 1969. One of two women participants in the original 13-person Congress of Racial Equality ...

5. Future Congressman John Lewis was one of the original Freedom Riders in 1961. Already a veteran of sit-ins, John Lewis was one of the first 13 activists CORE enlisted for their bus-riding ...

The Freedom Riders traveled throughout the South, protesting segregation and Jim Crow laws. In 1961. They came to Jackson Watkins just 13 at the time. Disobeyed his mother by going to see the ...

By Clay Risen Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders who traveled from Washington to Birmingham, Ala., in 1961 in an effort to integrate interstate bus terminals across the ...

The youngest of the Freedom Riders, Charles Person, has died at 82. Person was one of 13 original Freedom Riders who risked their lives, frequently coming under violent attack, as they traveled ...