where the riders found themselves unprotected by Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor’s police force. Mr. Person recalled that he and a white Freedom Rider, James Peck, had been assigned to ...

Responsible government officials, organizations must stand up to his strong-arm tactics and human and civil rights violations ...

Though not as physically large a man as Homan, Bull Connor, emboldened by his ties ... his clever plan to discourage civil rights “freedom riders” by holding back his police and giving the ...

Though not as physically large a man as Homan, Bull Connor, emboldened by his ties ... clever plan in 1963 to discourage civil rights “freedom riders” by holding back his police and giving ...

Though not as physically large a man as Homan, Bull Connor, emboldened by his ties to the Ku Klux ... Connor once disclosed in 1963 his clever plan to discourage Civil Rights “freedom riders” by ...

Take his mother’s word for it. Back in July 1997, when Del Whitehorse was pregnant with Keyshawn, she and her husband, Norbert, had tickets to see bull riders during the Days of ‘47 Rodeo in ...

Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died on Wednesday in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82.

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 ...