The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...

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 ...

ATLANTA — On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer ...

COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an organization born in Mississippi, that was a crucial piece of the civil rights ...

Round” tells the historic story of the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history, highlighting the ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Now the home of ...

Actress, author and civil rights activist Donzaleigh Abernathy spoke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s seventh annual MLK Symposium on Jan. 28.

Club will host civil rights activist Peggy Preacely in a public talk that will mark the first day of Black History Month.

Charles Person, the youngest original member of the Freedom Riders, passed away at 82 in Fayetteville. At 18, Person joined ...

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

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 ...

How a southern segregationist group took action to slow the growth of the civil rights movement ... head on with its bold series of freedom rides in 1961. We had these mixed groups of black ...