Family members have announced the funeral details for the youngest original Freedom Rider and civil rights hero, Charles ...

Monday was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. He was the mainstay of the Civil Rights Movement. We have many people here in ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders who boarded buses to test the Supreme Court’s ruling to ...

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

More than 60 years ago  a Freedom Rider named  Byron Baer, a longtime New Jersey legislator who was charged with attempting ...

Wednesday, Gardner delved into the Civil Rights Movement, her own experiences growing up in Spokane and a crash course in ...

Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died on Wednesday in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82.

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 ...

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

For Mr. Person, the campaign was an illustration of the power of nonviolence and collective action. It was also a deeply ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who were battered, bloodied and nearly killed as they traveled across the South in 1961, helping the civil rights movement gain ...