When reporters asked Abernathy to respond to Robert Kennedy's complaint that the Freedom Riders were embarrassing ... as an undergraduate at Nashville's American Baptist Theological Seminary.

When reporters asked Abernathy to respond to Robert Kennedy's complaint that the Freedom Riders were embarrassing ... as an undergraduate at Nashville's American Baptist Theological Seminary.

"He stood firm so that we may be able to experience the joys of freedom ... Person and his fellow Riders "tore down the walls of segregation." "Person was an American hero that changed this ...