Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person at home in Fayetteville, Georgia, in March 2024 - Michael S Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Charles Person, who ...
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He was the youngest Freedom Rider, now he’s sharing his story at a Mississippi museum
Hezekiah Watkins— the youngest Freedom Rider—is still here to share his harrowing journey from a death row cell to the history books.
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 ...
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 ...
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