Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider

Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider

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…

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