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GREYHOUND, May 28, 1961 - Nashville, TN to Jackson, MS: RIDE 3

Updated: Jun 21, 2022

Pictured below: Catherine Burks-Brooks, William Harbour, Frederick Leonard, Lester McKinnie, William Mitchell, Jr., Etta Simpson, Mary Smith, Frances Wilson, and Clarence Wright.




It was two and a half years before I could go home to see my family. My parents had to take the phone out of their house. People would call and say, "Where is the nigger? This nigger's gonna get killed." It worried my mother to death. I was well known in the community.

I was the salutatorian of my high school. -William Harbour (Breach of Peace, Etheridge, 2018)


Now if that isn't a contradiction...

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