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Charles Person, Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders, Dies at 82

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Charles Person, Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders, Dies at 82

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

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