Charles Person Freedom Readers 2025
And the Winner is...
This is a picture of Jaquon Stembridge, from Greensboro, Georgia, who was the winner of the first annual Charles Person Freedom Readers scholarship, recognizing the young man for his abilities and also to acknowledge Charles Person, who is one of the original 13 Freedom Riders who passed away this last month. He was the youngest at 18 and tells a story quite well.
Seven blacks and six whites made up the original group. In the end over 400 people participated both black-and-white from all over the country been thrown into the Parchman prison. Read the story and don’t forget history. It’s amazing what happens when blacks and whites get together for a common cause.
Charles Person Freedom Readers
WHY DONATE TO THE CHARLES PERSON FREEDOM READERS?
- To honor Mr. Charles Person whom we lost last month.
- We must remember our history! We want to incorporate it into Black History Month.
- Pass it on to generations to follow.
- Donations will be split between the schools in Georgia.
- Scholarship to local high school student(s).
- Freedom Riders documentary shown in local high school.
This is being done to honor and recognize Charles Person and Hank Thomas as true American heroes!
Congressional Gold medal of freedom
Charles Person and Hank Thomas are true American heroes. They were two of the 13 original Freedom Riders and need to be recognized by receiving the Congressional Gold Medal which is pending legislation HR 1247. Mr. Person sadly passed away before we accomplished this goal. I ask everyone to please go to this website where you can connect to whomever your state representatives and senators are. Let’s make sure this legislation gets passed on to honor these American heroes.
Buses are A Comin'
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 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 out to discover whether America would abide by a Supreme Court decision that ruled segregation unconstitutional in bus depots, waiting areas, restaurants, and restrooms nationwide.
Saving our 250-Year Brillant experiment
This 250-Year Brilliant Experiment
SAVING THIS 250-YEAR BRILLIANT EXPERIMENT is Randall Harman's story for his family and future generations of how passionately he feels about the country he loves and why that is. It starts with how he is raised, in a Conservative family where his father started one of the first required integrated schools in the country. Randall goes off to college, what he learns more about the world around him and then after his own reaching gig in a small school in Tennessee and after meeting his smart extraordinary wife, he embarks on a serious career which takes him into the beginning of the technology world.
