The youngest student on the first buses to depart Washington, 18-year-old Charles Person survived a vicious beating alongside John Lewis in Montgomery, Alabama.

College freshman David Dennis joined the Freedom Rides immediately after the Alabama highway bus burning, when the cost of the journey was starkly clear. He traveled from Montgomery to Jackson, Mississippi. 

Joan Browning attended the Georgia State College for Women and joined the Georgia Freedom Ride, traveling from Atlanta to Albany. Police arrested Browning and the other riders in Albany in December 1961. Their arrival and arrest started a wave of mass meetings and demonstrations. 

In this episode, they share their experience and why that campaign still matters.