Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom RiderA firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forwardwritten 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 activistsincluding future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of Racial