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 ...

The Freedom Rides were successful in large part because they were able to engage the media and gain a sympathetic national audience. A handful of reporters and photographers from the black press and ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, the Trump administration released a list of hundreds of federal buildings across the nation that the federal government planned to take "decisive action" to offload from their ownership on ...

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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 momentum ...

every time I went away to tell them we don't serve colored folks here, they would ignore that, and they kept on sitting at accent for coffee. I never did hear them, actually, nothing else but coffee.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. By challenging segregation laws in the South, Rosemond and ...

You may have heard a member of No. 2 Oregon’s (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten) secondary made a big play in the Ducks’ 30-24 double overtime win over Penn... UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., ALTOONA, Pa., CHICAGO, DETROIT and ...