Funeral details announced for youngest Freedom Rider Charles Person
Family members have announced the funeral details for the youngest original Freedom Rider and civil rights hero, Charles ...
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Freedom Rider reflects on Civil Rights Movement
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, youngest of original Freedom Riders, dies at 82
Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders who boarded buses to test the Supreme Court’s ruling to ...
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Freedom Rider Byron Baer spent 34 years in the NJ legislature — and 45 days in a Mississippi prison
More than 60 years ago  a Freedom Rider named  Byron Baer, a longtime New Jersey legislator who was charged with attempting ...
Freedom Rider Charles Person dies at 82
Charles Person, an original Freedom Rider, died at his home in Fayetteville, Ga., at age 82. A leader in the Civil Right ...
‘The movement is you all’: Spokane NAACP president draws parallels between civil rights activists, students of today
Wednesday, Gardner delved into the Civil Rights Movement, her own experiences growing up in Spokane and a crash course in ...
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Charles Person, youngest Freedom Rider who faced brutal beatings in Alabama, dies at 82
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, Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders, Dies at 82
In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across ...
Charles Person, youngest of the Freedom Riders, dies at 82
For Mr. Person, the campaign was an illustration of the power of nonviolence and collective action. It was also a deeply ...