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ILLINOIS CENTRAL TRAIN STATION, IL - June 8, 1961, New Orleans, LA, to Jackson, MS - RIDE 13

Updated: Jun 21, 2022

Pictured (below) beginning with the last 2 men in the 1st row: Travis Britt, Stokely Carmichael, Gwendolyn Greene, Terry Perlman, Jane Rosett, Jan Trigga, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, Reverend Robert Wesby, and Helen Wilson.




The fact that Stokely’s cry [for Black power] was picked up by various revolutionary elements in the country as being radical and militant, that to me is a kind of white romanticism that is not connected to the effort to create a new nation. I don’t think anything was more radical than the [nonviolent] Montgomery bus boycott or the sit-in campaign or the Albany movement or the Birmingham campaign. -Reverend James Lawson (BreachOfPeace.com)


We were transferred to Parchman [Prison] in a van or maybe a paddy wagon. There were only women on the trip...At some point, the driver pulled off on some dirt road and stopped at some house back in the woods...I remember that as being one of those moments where you make peace with the Almighty. Then it was night, I think, when we got to Parchman -- getting processed and a change of clothes and vaginal searches...It was all frightening. I think it was meant to impress the seriousness of our isolation and they could do anything they wanted to. -Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (Breach of Peace, Etheridge, 2018)


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