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ILLINOIS CENTRAL TRAIN STATION, May 30, 1961 - New Orleans, LA to Jackson, MS: RIDE 5

Updated: Jun 21, 2022

First 8 pictured below: James Davis, Jr., Glenda Gaither, Paul Green, Joe Griffith, Charles Haynie, Robert Heller, Sandra Nixon, and Peter Sterling.




What I can remember is we got off the train, and we walked into the train station, walked over to the fountain -- I believe it was the colored fountain they had there --and I took a drink of water, and I guess somebody said, 'You're under arrest.'" -University of Mississippi Interview with Robert Heller for the Freedom Riders 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001

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