Author: richardrookerandcharlesperson

A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward–written by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female … black and white, male and female activists–including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of Racial Equality Director James Farmer, Reverend Benjamin Elton Cox, journalist and pacifist James Peck, and CORE field secretary Genevieve Hughes–set…