On May 4, 1961, a bus carrying black and white anti-segregation activists called the Freedom Riders rolled into Alabama and was immediately attacked by members of the KKK.

Cox also participated in the July 8-15, 1961 Missouri to Louisiana CORE Freedom Ride. Defending the actions of the Freedom Riders, Cox argues in Freedom Riders, "If men like Governor Patterson ...

Cox also participated in the July 8-15, 1961 Missouri to Louisiana CORE Freedom Ride. Defending the actions of the Freedom Riders, Cox argues in Freedom Riders, "If men like Governor Patterson ...

The Freedom Riders’ journey began on May 4 1961 when 18-year old Person and his fellow activists boarded two buses at Washington’s Greyhound station for a 17-day journey through the segregated ...

Caddo District Court records show precisely what happened when four Freedom Riders were arrested on Aug. 4, 1961, as they tried to get on a bus to Jackson, Mississippi. They planned to meet up ...

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 ...

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 ...