You’re traveling along Alabama 202, about 10 minutes from downtown Anniston, and you look to the side at a wide expanse of grass with a large marker designating the field as the Freedom Riders ...

The old Greyhound bus station on Gurnee Avenue was bustling with activity Tuesday morning as National Park Service officials and planners were in town to solicit public input for a master plan for the ...

Aboard two buses, 13 men and women, some Negro and some white, set out from Washington, D.C., in early May. They called themselves “Freedom Riders.” They meant to demonstrate that segregated travel on ...

B I R M I N G H A M, Ala., May 12 -- Riding into Montgomery to a hero'swelcome Saturday, Ed Blankenheim said he can still remember thehatred on the faces of the men and women who surrounded and ...

Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82. In 1961, 18 ...

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 ...

On Jan. 8, Charles Person, an original Freedom Rider, died at his home in Fayetteville, Ga., at age 82. A leader in the Civil Right Movement, Person had visited Anniston several times and came to ...

ANNISTON — The Anniston City Council received updates Tuesday evening on improvements at key civil rights landmarks during a work session ahead of its regular meeting, where it also recognized a local ...

He was bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961 as he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal waiting rooms. Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original ...