On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist ...

Monday was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. He was the mainstay of the Civil Rights Movement. We have many people here in ...

About the Album: World premiere recording of Richard Allen and Taran Gray's score for award-winning NYMF musical. Cast includes Brynn Williams, Anthony Chatmon II, Deon’te Goodman, Payson Lewis ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

Charles Person, who has died aged 82, was the youngest of the civil rights activists – seven black and six white Americans – who in 1961 braved hostile US sheriffs and howling Ku Klux Klan-inspired ...

Charles Person, the youngest original member of the Freedom Riders, passed away at 82 in Fayetteville. At 18, Person joined ...

The Freedom Riders’ journey began on May 4 1961 ... a leading figure in the city’s civil rights movement, where he was joined by other riders including Peck. Most local doctors refused to ...

"Charles was a man of quiet strength, humility, and unwavering resolve. He believed deeply in the power of community, ...

When he returned from the Freedom Rides, he told his mother he wanted to continue being part of the civil rights movement. She urged him try a different form of service by enlisting in the Army ...

In 1961, 18-year-old Person joined a group of 12 other Civil Rights activists, both Black and white ... “I probably should have been afraid, but, you know, the movement was bigger than I was. It was ...

Civil rights through the eyes of a child Civil rights activist Valda Harris Montgomery spoke at Friday’s Lunch and Learn in ...

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in his mid-20s when he rose to prominence as the father of the American Civil Rights Movement. The late U.S. Rep John Lewis was just 21 years old when he became one of ...