Person at home in Fayetteville, Georgia, in March 2024 - Michael S Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Charles Person, who has died aged 82, was the youngest of the civil rights activists – seven ...

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 momentum ...

MARKHAM, Ill. (WLS) -- Before moving to Chicago in 1963, he traveled across the Deep South, playing a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s. Miller Green was a Freedom Rider, a ...

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. In 1961, 18 ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans ...

Every great once in a while, something like Stanley Nelson’s wonderful documentary Freedom Riders appears and is so good that it exhausts all common versions of praise. In it, Nelson and his crew take ...

ATLANTA — Family and friends gathered Friday to remember the life and legacy of Charles Person, the youngest original Freedom Rider and a civil rights legend. Person died at his home on January 8 in ...

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, issued a statement Wednesday after the U.S. General Services Administration confirmed that the historic Montgomery Bus Station, home to the Freedom Riders Museum, ...