In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across ...
On May 25, Abernathy was arrested on breach of peace charges after escorting William Sloane Coffin's Connecticut Freedom Ride to the Montgomery Greyhound Bus Terminal, neither the first nor the ...
Charles Person, known as the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. He passed away peacefully at his ...
After Ku Klux Klan members boarded a bus ... The Freedom Riders’ journey began on May 4 1961 when 18-year old Person and his fellow activists boarded two buses at Washington’s Greyhound ...
Bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961, he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal ...
On May 25, Abernathy was arrested on breach of peace charges after escorting William Sloane Coffin's Connecticut Freedom Ride to the Montgomery Greyhound Bus Terminal, neither the first nor the ...