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RIDES 46 & 47...Greyhound, July 29, 1961, Nashville, TN, to Jackson, MS (ride 46)
Byron Baer, Hilmar Pabel, Catherine Prensky, Sally Rowley, Judith Scroggins Rick Sheviakov, Woollcott Smith, Ellen Ziskind. Byron Baer...
Hawkins Field, Jackson Airport, Jackson, MS, July 21, 1961 - Freedom Ride Encounter 42
Nine riders pictured below (from first person, first row): James Carey, Reverend Francis Geddes, Joseph Gumbiner, Mary and Russell...
HEIDELBERG HOTEL, July 17, 1961, Jackson, MS
Richard Haley, Hellen O'Neal McCray. Most Freedom Riders integrated public transportation, and public transit waiting rooms and dining...
Encounters/Rides 37-40
WALGREEN'S, July 11, 1961, Jackson, MS - RIDE 37 Luvaghn Brown and Jimmie Travis. When Emmitt Till was killed I started to realize what...
FRANK GRIFFIN, Freedom Rider , Illinois Central Train Station, July 6, 1961 - RIDE 30
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...
ELEVEN...Rides 26 to 36
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, June 25, 1961, New Orleans, LA, to Jackson, MS - RIDE 25
George Blevins, Gloria Bouknight, Arthur Brooks, Jr., John Dolan, Mary Hamilton, Gordon Harris, Louise Inghram, Frank Johnson, Marian...
TRAILWAYS, June 23, 1961, Jackson, MS - RIDE 24
Last 4 pictured below: Thomas Armstrong III, Mary Harrison, Elnora Price, and Joseph Ross. Mary Harrison was the one Asian Freedom Rider....
LIVINGSTON PARK, June 22, 1961, Jackson, MS - RIDE 23
Beginning with the last person (woman) in the 2nd row: Maxie Gardner, Jimmy Knight, Elihu Osby, Jr., and Charles Purnell. I was in high...
TRAILWAYS, June 21, 1961, Montgomery, AL, to Jackson, MS - RIDE 22
First 9 pictured below: Judith Frieze Wright, Margaret Leonard, Samuel Nash, Mimi Real, Henry Schwarzschild, Rev. Leon Smith, Jr.,...
ILLINOIS CENTRAL TRAIN STATION, June 20, 1961, New Orleans, LA, to Jackson MS - RIDE 21
Rita Carter, Margaret Kerr, Robert Martinson, Paul McConnell, Frederick Muntean, Rev. Grant Muse, Jr., Lestra Peterson, Joan Pleune,...
GREYHOUND, June 16, 1961 - Nashville, TN, to Jackson, MS - RIDE 19
Pictured below, starting with the second person (woman) in the 1st row: Elizabeth Adler, Bob Filner, Elizabeth Hirschfeld, Karen Kyle,...
GREYHOUND, June 19, 1961 - Ride 20
Last person (man) pictured below: Eugene Levine Eugene Levine. Age thirty-four. One of the older Riders to join the cause. And not a...
GREYHOUND, June 14, 1961 - Ride 18
First person (man) pictured below: Daniel Ray Thompson If you didn't know, Daniel Ray Thompson was an activist, an instigator of good...
GREYHOUND, June 11, 1961 - Nashville, TN, to Jackson, MS - RIDE 17
The last 6 pictured below: Zev Aelony, Robert Baum, Marv Davidov, David Morton, Claire O'Connor, and Gene Uphoff. In Parchman there was...
LIVINGSTON PARK, June 10, 1961 - Jackson, MS - RIDE 16
The last two men pictured in the second row: Amos Brown and James Hopkins “Emmett [Till] and I were the same age,” Brown said. “When I...
GREYHOUND, June 10, 1961 - Nashville, TN, to Jackson, MS - RIDE 15
The first 6 pictured below: Leora Berman, Stephen Green, Richard Griswold, Leon Horne, Katherine Pleune, and Lewell Woods, Jr. Stephen...
ILLINOIS CENTRAL TRAIN STATION, June 9, 2022, Nashville, TN, to Jackson, MS - RIDE 14
The last 5 pictured below: Winonah Beamer, Edward Bromberg, Patricia Bryant, Del Greenblatt, and Heath Rush. I was not involved in...
ILLINOIS CENTRAL TRAIN STATION, IL - June 8, 1961, New Orleans, LA, to Jackson, MS - RIDE 13
Pictured (below) beginning with the last 2 men in the 1st row: Travis Britt, Stokely Carmichael, Gwendolyn Greene, Terry Perlman, Jane...
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