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 this ...

THROUGH THE 15TH IN CELEBRATION OF A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST BIRTHDAY. THE TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS HOSTED FREE ADMISSIONS. HEZEKIAH WATKINS IS A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, BEING CELEBRATED TODAY. WATKINS ...

The event was called “Then and Now: What Has Changed?” and had guest speaker Hezekiah Watkins, who is the last surviving Freedom Rider. The Freedom Riders worked during the Civil Rights Movement to ...

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 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 the ...

FREEDOM RIDERS: The Civil Rights Musical is coming to City College Center for the Arts in Aaron Davis Hall – Marian Anderson Theater on September 24–25, 2025 at 7 pm. Presented as a staged concert, ...

The youngest of the Freedom Riders, Charles Person, has died at 82. Person was one of 13 original Freedom Riders who risked their lives, frequently coming under violent attack, as they traveled across ...

Lewis’ cause attracts some of the most iconic civil rights figures of the 1960s; including Martin Luther King, Jr. (Guy Lockard), Ralph Abernathy (Brandon Michael Nase), Stokely Carmichael (Nygel D.

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 ...

Presented in a concert format, this musical experience explores the true story of the interracial group of young activists who risked their lives in 1961 to challenge segregation in the American South ...