1. TRAILWAYS, July 2 - RIDE 26
2. LIVINGSTON PARK, July 4-5 - RIDE 27
3. TRAILWAYS, July 5 - RIDE 28
4. TRAILWAYS, July 5 - RIDE 29
5. ILLINOIS CENTRAL TRAIN STATION, July 6 - RIDE 30
6. GREYHOUND, July 7 - RIDE 31
7. TRAILWAYS, July 7 - RIDE 32
8. ILLINOIS CENTRAL TRAIN STATION, July 7 - RIDE 33
9. ILLINOIS CENTRAL TRAIN STATION, July 9 - RIDE 34
10. TRAILWAYS, July 9 - RIDE 35
11. TRAILWAYS, July 9 - RIDE 36
RIDE 26: Barbara Kay, Robert Miller, Michael Pritchard, Peter Stoner, and Leotis Thornton.
RIDE 27: Mary Lou Bell, Charles Brice, Eddie Thomas, and Percy Thornton.
RIDE 28: Robert Bass, Ralph Floyd, and Eugene Lee.
RIDE 29: Marshal Bennett, Miller G. Green, Robert Green, Jesse Harris, Percy Johnson, and James Jones.
RIDE 30:Frank Caston, Frank Griffin, Alpha Palmer, West Phillips, Tommie Watts, Jr., and Mack Wells.
RIDE 31: Alfonzo Denson, Jr., Samual Givens, Landy McMair, Jr., Earl Vance, Jr., Hezekiah Watkins, and Paul Young.
RIDE 32: Charles Biggers, Elmer Brown, William Hansen, Jr., John Lowry, Norma Matzkin, Isaac Reynolds, Jr., Daniel Stevens, and Ameen Tuungane.
RIDE 33: Morton Slater
RIDE 34: Patricia Baskerville, Larry Bell, Tommie Brashear, Edmond Dalbert, Jr., Reginald Jackson, Edward Johnson, Philip Perkins, Roena Rand, and John Taylor, Jr.
RIDE 35: Daniel Burkholder, Lionell Goldbart, Albert Gordon, Stephen Greenstein, Jeanne Herrick, Saul Manfield, Robert Rogers, and Lula Mae White.
RIDE 36: Leo Blue, Mildred Blue, Fred Clark, Jessie Davis, Gainnel Hayes, Andrew Horne, Jr., Erma Lee Horne, Delores Lynch, Henry Rosell, Oneal Vance, and Joe Watts, Jrs.
At Parchman I was housed in a large room with maybe forty to fifty white men. Most of them were young college students like m myself. We weren't allowed any reading material... -Peter Stoner (Breach of Peace, Etheridge, 2018)
We had seen what had been done to Emmett Till. I remember when it happened. The fear escalated so that when it got dark and you was away fro home and you saw car lights coming on, you ran, not knowing who would be in that car. We lived with that. And come 1961, you asking young men to go and do something that they'd seen nobody ever do. - Miller G. Green (Breach of Peace, Etheridge, 2018)
I was brought up on a farm. Cotton, corn, stuff like that. Grandaddy was a framer. It was constant work. If you weren't picking cotton you were plowing. If you weren't plowing. If you weren't plowing you was cutting the fence lines. When we weren't working in our fields, we was working in the white man's fields.
On Saturday we rode on the wagon to the one general store in downtown Carthage. They had one movie theater on the square, and then a general store around the square on the corner. We got what we needed fo the house, maybe a pair of shoes or a pair of pants or a shirt. That was about it.
It was very intimidating and very scary. We ... (READ MORE HERE) -Frank Griffin (Breach of Peace, Etheridge, 2018)
At Parchman they brought some kids in to sight-see us...They were pointing at us just like we were animals. "Oh, look at that one's hair." "Oh, look at that one." -Edward Johnson (Breach of Peace, Etheridge, 2018)
The clothing that they gave us in Parchman was a T-shirt that was military green and some green boxer shorts. No shoes, no. And as we began to protest, they took them from us and left us with nothing. Then they took the mattress, so now we had to lie on a metal slab with them little round holes -- and boy, you talk about some hard sleeping at night? When you're sleeping o the thing, there's that indentation where your skin goes through that little round hold, and there you are, half of you is like being suffocated and the other half is being cut out, you couldn't sleep any way you tried. -Larry Bell (Breach of Peace, Etheridge, 2018)
In Parchman I shared a cell -- one big room -- with forty riders, all white men. Segregation even in Parchman! We slept on thin mattresses on cots about six inches apart. -Albert Gordon ou is like being suffocated and the other half is being cut out, you couldn't sleep any way you tried. -Albert Gordon (Breach of Peace, Etheridge, 2018)
It was very exciting to know that people without power -- ordinary people -- could do something, something as simple as going in and sitting down. It was just thrilling.
When we got to Parchman, they did a body search. It was horrifying to me to have them take our clothes off, throw us on a table, and do a body cavity search. - Lula White (Breach of Peace, Etheridge, 2018)
When I first walked into that church, I felt somewhat liberated. But when they put me in the paddy wagon, I felt like the chains had fallen off. I was thinking about verses in the Bible about the chains falling off, and i was feeling free. - Jessie Davis (Breach of Peace, Etheridge, 2018)