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In Freedom Riders, Burks says she borrowed a line from ... One of two women participants in the original 13-person Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Freedom Ride, 28-year-old CORE Field ...
Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who were battered, bloodied and nearly killed as they ...
Person was one of 13 original Freedom Riders who risked their lives, frequently coming under violent attack, as they traveled across the South at the height of the civil rights era to fight ...
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 ...
Charles Person, the youngest original member of the Freedom Riders, passed away at 82 in Fayetteville. At 18, Person joined the Freedom Riders, facing violence to challenge racial segregation in ...
It was not about me.” More: Paving the way: Meet the 13 original Freedom Riders who changed travel in the South Person and the original Freedom Riders were met with violent resistance in Alabama ...
ATLANTA — On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church to honor his life and work. Charles Person died earlier ...
After listing the Freedom Rides Museum as 'up for sale' last week, DOGE has made a decision on whether to keep the historic site.
By Clay Risen Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders who traveled from Washington to Birmingham, Ala., in 1961 in an effort to integrate interstate bus terminals across the ...