Thomas Gaither, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins, Dies at 86
When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...
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Charles Person, Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders, Dies at 82
Image Mr. Person, standing left, with other Freedom Riders and the civil rights leader the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, kneeling second from left, at the Greyhound bus terminal in Birmingham ...
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Remembering youngest Freedom Rider Charles Person | Legacy lives on through heroism, activism
The youngest Freedom Rider, Charles Person, died at age 82, his family stated. He left an incredible mark on history and was a hero who risked his life during the Civil Rights Movement. According to ...
Key figure in civil rights movement, youngest ‘Freedom Rider’ honored after passing at 82
On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist ...
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Charles Person, youngest of civil rights ‘Freedom Riders’ who boarded buses to test Jim Crow laws
There he became involved in civil rights and in February 1961 was arrested during a sit-in at an Atlanta restaurant. When he returned from the Freedom Ride, his mother urged him to join the Army ...
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11 Must-See Stops on Mississippi’s Freedom Trail
From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!
Thomas Gaither, who led ‘jail-no-bail’ civil rights activism, dies at 86
The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...
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Black and Jewish Civil Rights Alliance Recalled in ‘Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round’
Glen Echo Amusement Park was the wholesome, beloved playground of White metropolitan Washington, DC. Every summer, tens of ...
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Charles Person, youngest Freedom Rider who faced brutal beatings in Alabama, dies at 82
More:Freedom Riders traveled deep into the South in 1961. Klansmen beat them, then set their bus on fire. The Morehouse College freshman had first become involved in Civil Rights protests in ...
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Two pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement, Charles Person and Thomas Gaither
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 ...
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Dooky Chase’s reopens upstairs dining room where Civil Rights history was made. See inside
Dodie Smith-Simmons is one of the Freedom Riders, a hero of the Civil Rights Movement. She stepped into the small upstairs dining room at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant on Monday evening with a ...
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Charles Person, youngest of the Freedom Riders, dies at 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 ...