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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. American civil rights activists of the 1960s "Freedom ride" redirects here. For the Australian Freedom Ride, see Freedom Ride (Australia). For the book, see Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Freedom Riders Part of the Civil Rights Movement Mugshots of Freedom ...
Charles Person, one of the original 13 Freedom Riders, commented from his Atlanta home, April 29, 2021: "Well there's amazement, because of the progress we've made and some disappointment because ...
Charles Person (September 27, 1942 – January 8, 2025) was an African-American civil rights activist who was the youngest Freedom Rider of the 1961 Freedom Rides. He was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Following his 1960 graduation from David Tobias Howard High School, he attended Morehouse College.
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm"). [1]
In 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) began to organize Freedom Rides. The first departed from Washington, D.C. and involved 13 black and white riders who rode into the South challenging white only lunch counters and restaurants. When they reached Anniston, Alabama one of the buses was ambushed and attacked. [1]
Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang after challenging Jim Crow laws will have their sentences posthumously vacated. On April 9, 1947, a ...
On April 9, 1947, a group of eight white men and eight Black men began the first “freedom ride” to challenge laws that mandated segregation on buses in defiance of the 1946 U.S. Supreme Court ...
James Peck (usually called "Jim") was born in Manhattan, the son of Samuel Peck, a wealthy clothing wholesaler, who died when his son was eleven years old.He attended Choate Rosemary Hall, a private boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut.