Charles Person at his home in Fayetteville, Georgia on March 08. Person is one of only two surviving original 13 freedom riders from the history making 1961 civil rights effort. Person holds a ...

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.

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 ...

Charles Person was just 18, a freshman at Morehouse College, when he joined the Freedom Riders movement, boarding a New Orleans-bound Trailways bus in Washington on May 4, 1961.

Charles Person, the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. Person was only 18 when he joined. In 1961, the Freedom Riders challenged racial segregation in the deep South by ...

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He joined the Atlanta Committee on Appeal for Human Rights and later joined the CORE Freedom Ride. The Freedom Rides began on May 4, 1961, and continued throughout the year. They eventually ...