When the Freedom Riders rolled into Jackson in 1961, Mississippi responded with mass arrests — and the Riders answered with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. Person was only 18 when he joined. In 1961, the Freedom Riders challenged racial segregation in the deep South by riding ...

every time I went away to tell them we don't serve colored folks here, they would ignore that, and they kept on sitting at accent for coffee. I never did hear them, actually, nothing else but coffee.

In 1961, when Hezekiah Watkins was 13, he was arrested and placed on death row after entering the “whites only” section of a ...

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 ...

During the NLC Convention, the Freedom Rider told young leaders to vote because the future is in their hands. During the 2024 New Leaders Council Convention, Charles Person, the youngest member to ...

On Tuesday, the Trump administration released a list of hundreds of federal buildings across the nation that the federal government planned to take "decisive action" to offload from their ownership on ...

The Freedom Riders, a group of Black and white activists who sought to end racial segregation in the Deep South, faced dangerous resistance. Their peaceful actions were often met with violence. In May ...

What happened at the 1965 Freedom Ride? Over 15 days (13 February 13 – 26 February 26), a group of 30 University of Sydney student members of the Student ...