A veteran of the Nashville sit-ins, Lafayette had already staged a successful impromptu Freedom Ride with his close friend and fellow student activist John Lewis in 1959, while traveling home for ...
When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...
The Freedom Rides demonstrated the power of nonviolent direct action to achieve strategic victory. Along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the student lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 ...
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Charles Person, youngest Freedom Rider who faced brutal beatings in Alabama, dies at 82More: Freedom Riders traveled deep into the South in 1961. Klansmen beat them, then set their bus on fire. The Morehouse College freshman had first become involved in Civil Rights protests in Atlanta ...
Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial ... rights protests in Atlanta during lunch counter sit-ins when he caught wind of the bus trip.
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