![]() ![]() So, we’d just go more and more into the details. ![]() Of course, we’ve been friends for a long time so I already knew his story. “We would have weekly interviews every Tuesday for 4-1/2 years from one to three hours and I’d just keep learning his story. Rooker told Person he had always wanted to write a book, but had been busy for the last 35 years, but Rooker proposed the idea to Person that they team up for a book on Person’s life. Person told Rooker he had, but he wasn’t a writer. In October 2016, Rooker asked Person if he had ever thought about writing his memoirs as the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides was coming in 2021. The book is Person’s story told from his perspective. Martin’s Press – took hundreds of hours over almost five years to write. The memoir – out Tuesday, April 27 from St. One of the last two living original Freedom Riders, Charles Person, tells his story in the new book “Buses Are A Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider,” written by retired Warsaw teacher Richard Rooker. ![]()
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