Anniston will commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Freedom Rides on May 9 with a daylong series of events honoring the ...

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 ...

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 riding ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans ...

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 ...

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 ...

After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause. Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound ...

This week marks the 53rd anniversary of the Freedom Rides, one of the pivotal moments of both the civil rights movement and American history. Inspired by the sit-ins that had spread across the nation ...

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 ...