He gained the attention of CORE recruiters that were looking for an Atlanta freedom rider. Leonard married Joy Reagon, who was also a Freedom Rider. This led her to participate in the movement as a Freedom Rider. Later in August 1961, she married Freedom Rider Paul Brooks. On May 4, 1961, Hank Thomas joined the first Freedom Rider group. Freedom Rider Greta Mae Hansen (played by Annalena Lund). She was a Freedom Rider, arrested and incarcerated for 40 days in Mississippi. In 2014, she published a book, "Freedom Rider Diary&colon; Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison". Person was the youngest Freedom Rider on the original Congress of Racial Equality Freedom Ride.