After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause. Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Jan. 8, Charles Person, an original Freedom Rider, died at his home in Fayetteville, Ga., at age 82. A leader in the Civil ...

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 ...

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 ...

It didn’t get bad until the Trailways bus crossed the state line from Georgia into Alabama in May of 1961. A gang of white men boarded the bus in Anniston and started beating the handful of young ...

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 ...

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 cast for = Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical, has been officially revealed. This musical event will take place at the City College Center for the Arts in Aaron Davis Hall – Marian Anderson ...