An Evening With a Freedom Rider: Charles Person @CrystalBridgesMuseum
An Evening With a Freedom Rider: Charles Person @CrystalBridgesMuseum
Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
Join us as we welcome a living legend to Crystal Bridges: Freedom Rider and activist Charles Person.

An author and Marine Corps veteran, Charles Person was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders who set out on May 4, 1961, to protest segregation and discrimination against Black Americans in the South. The youngest rider to participate that day, 18-year-old Charles Person made a decision that would shape America and the civil rights movement as we know it.

In partnership with John Brown University, Person is here in Northwest Arkansas to discuss the impact and story of that ride.

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