These self-proclaimed, 'Freedom Riders' challenged the mores of a racially segregated society by performing a disarmingly simple act.

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.

Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders who boarded buses to test the Supreme Court’s ruling to ...