[weaver_youtube ECpMxeEsbPQ rel=0]   WARSAW — Over 600 people of all ages and all walks of life, came to the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center on the campus of Grace College not only for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, but to hear Charles Person, one of three surviving original Freedom Riders of 1961. It …read more.

By RICHARD ROOKER MLK Day Commemoration Committee (EDITOR’S NOTE: Monday, Jan. 18, Charles Person, one of three surviving original Freedom Riders of 1961, will be the speaker for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center. The event runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. with doors opening at …read more.

WARSAW — He is one of three people alive today who participated in the May 1, 1961, Freedom Ride from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans. He was also among those arrested three years earlier at the lunch counter sit-in. Charles Person, Atlanta, Ga., will be coming to Warsaw as the guest speaker for the 28th …read more.