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Separate but equal?
We cater to white trade only
Lynching in Marion, Indiana, 1930
Segregated facilities greet returning black WW II soldiers
1947: The First Freedom Ride
Ernie BromleyWally Nelson Jim Peck
Policemen, Clarksville, Mississippi
King, Shuttlesworth and Abernathy
M.L. King’sNonviolent Principles
for the Civil Rights
Movement
King and Abernathy organize Montgomery Bus Boycott
Drs. King and Abernathy jailed
Abernathy’s Home Is Bombed
Segregated facilities were the rule until the 1960s.
Map of Freedom Rides
Robert and John F.
Kennedy
Bus burns, injured Freedom Riders huddle on grass
Bus Is Fully Engulfed
Burned Out Bus, Battered Freedom Riders on the Grass
It took more than 50 stitches to
close the wounds in Jim Peck’s head
Lewis and Zwerg after Montgomery beatings
Jim Zwerg hospitalized after beating
in Montgomery
Alabama
Bandaged John Lewis & James FarmerJim Lawson and C.T. Vivian
Robert Kennedy sent John Seigenthaler to Montgomery where he was beaten unconscious.
Montgomery to Jackson Map
National Guard posted outside
Greyhound Station
Freedom Riders wait to depart from Montgomery Trailways Station
David Fankhauser
Ready to board the bus in Montgomery
King bids goodbye to Freedom Rider
National Guard outside Montgomery bus station
View from the window as bus departs Montgomery
National Guard posted on bus
Freedom Riders are transferred(Jim Farmer in front)
Mugshot, D. Fankhauser, 28 May 1961
Jackson City Jail.
Windows to the bull pen which housed the first twenty Freedom Riders are in far
third floor.
(picture: 1989)
Parchman prisoners chop cotton“down on the County Farm…”
Maximum Security Unit, Parchman Penitentiary
Catwalk between rows of cells
Showers
2 3 4 5 6 etc
Entrance
Plan of two-man maximum
security cell, Parchman
Penitentiary
ComodeSink
Bunk Bed
light
View from cell
Facing windows,bunks to left, feeding slot in
sliding barred door