Charles Person, the youngest original member of the Freedom Riders, passed away at 82 in Fayetteville. At 18, Person joined ...

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

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

ATLANTA — On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer ...

Every holiday season, the Libby Food Pantry distributes a large amount of their stock to our local community. Knowing that they start running incredibly low in commodities, the Freedom Riders, LoD — ...

When reporters asked Abernathy to respond to Robert Kennedy's complaint that the Freedom Riders were embarrassing the United States in front of the world, Abernathy responded, "Well, doesn't the ...

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.

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

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 ...

Charles Person at his home in Fayetteville, Georgia on March 08. Person is one of only two surviving original 13 freedom riders from the history making 1961 civil rights effort. Person holds a ...