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

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

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 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 ...

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

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

The youngest Freedom Rider, Charles Person, died at age 82, his family stated. He left an incredible mark on history and was ...

Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82.