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TRAILWAYS, June 23, 1961, Jackson, MS - RIDE 24

Updated: Jun 21, 2022

Last 4 pictured below: Thomas Armstrong III, Mary Harrison, Elnora Price, and Joseph Ross.


Mary Harrison was the one Asian Freedom Rider. And as such somebody you need to meet. Connected to her? Freedom Rider Elnora Price.



It was on June 23, 1961 that one of my classmates, Mrs. Mary Harrison Lee and I met Ms. Elnora Price. We met while on a trip to the Trailways Bus Terminal in Jackson Mississippi, in the station wagon owned and operated by Mrs. A.M.E. Logan known by many as the Mother of the Jackson Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. No humor existed during that meeting. We had decided that we wanted to integrate the Jackson, Mississippi Trailways Bus Terminal. With that thought in mind, Elnora became one of the now famous Tougaloo Four Freedom Riders which included Elnora, Mary Harrison Lee, Joseph Ross and myself, Thomas Armstrong

Elnora's early environment instilled the confidence in her that let her know that one day she could help change the world for the better.

She saw loneliness and depression and tried to provide encouraging words to all who would listen. She saw fear and tried to tame it. She stood up for those who would not or could not stand for themselves. She spoke up for those who could not or would not speak for themselves. She saw the words colored and white hanging from water fountains and helped to eradicate them. Like our mentor, Medgar Evers, Elnora stood for peace, love, and the right to vote. -Thomas Armstrong III (New Mount Zion Baptist Church, memorial service for Price, 2014)

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