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Freedom Riders Joan Browning and Charles Person chat July 26 at Emory University in Atlanta. They were activists
who rode buses into the Deep South in 1961, aiming to desegregate interstate transportation. Browning and Person are donating their archives to the Emory University.

Freedom Riders Joan Browning and Charles Person chat July 26 at Emory University in Atlanta. They were activists
who rode buses into the Deep South in 1961, aiming to desegregate interstate transportation. Browning and Person are donating their archives to the Emory University.

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Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders urge younger activists to get out the vote

Charles Person, one of the Civil Rights Movement’s original Freedom Riders, echoed organizers across Georgia when he urged a group of Generation Z and millenial activists to encourage young people to vote.