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

A 100-year old freedom fighter from Goa, a Dhak player from West Bengal who trained 150 women in the male-dominated field and ...

Training and role-playing ... who had already been injured and jailed. Movement leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. who initially considered the Freedom Rides too risky became outspoken ...

In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across ...

Unlike most other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement ... Arsenault in his book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Individuals without legal training or political ...