"Charles was a man of quiet strength, humility, and unwavering resolve. He believed deeply in the power of community, ...

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 ...

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

Charles Person was just 18 when he volunteered to join the Freedom Riders, who faced violent racism on their journey to ...

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

Charles Person, who has died aged 82, was the youngest of the civil rights activists – seven black and six white Americans – ...

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

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 13 original Freedom Riders who boarded buses to test the Supreme Court’s ruling to ...

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 ...

The Freedom Riders were met with further violence when they passed into Alabama on May 14, Mother’s Day. The first bus had its tires slashed in Anniston and was firebombed outside of town while ...