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28 May 1961: We
successfully integrated the Montgomery Trailways station, the scene of
some terrible beatings inflicted just days before on Freedom Riders
(mostly Nashville students) who came down from Birmingham just days
before.
In the picture, with the page number of their images in Ethridge's
"Breach of Peace" are freedom Riders, left to right:
Front row, seated: David Fankhauser (p 58-60), Allen Cason, Jr. (p
58-59), David Myers (pp 58-59, 64-65), Pauline Knight-Ofosu (pp 58-59,
62-63), Franklin Hunt (?)(pp 58-59)
Back row: standing Larry Hunter (?) (pp 58-59, 61), William Manhoey (?)
(pp58-59); seated, back to camera: Albert Lee Dunn (pp 58-59)
Picture source: Wilkenson, Brenda, "The Civil Rights Movement, An
Illustrated History," p. 82.
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The Trailways bus leaves
Montgomery Alabama under the watchful eyes of the National Guard
Source: Stanley Nelson's, "Freedom Riders",
Chapter 13:
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Approach to the Jackson
Mississippi Trailways Station,
Source: Stanley Nelson's, "Freedom Riders",
Chapter 13:
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The Trailways bus pulls into the
station.
Source: Stanley Nelson's, "Freedom Riders",
Chapter 13:
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Arrests being made in Jackson
Bus Station.
Source: Stanley Nelson's, "Freedom Riders",
Chapter 13:
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Being led out the the station
into the Paddy Wagon
Source: Stanley Nelson's, "Freedom Riders",
Chapter 13:
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Arrested Freedom Riders are
place in the Paddy Wagon.
Source: Stanley Nelson's, Freedom Riders",
Chapter 13:
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Freedom Rider Mugshots:
Unknown Freedom Rider, Joan Trumphaue Mulholland (pp 86-89), David
Fankhauser (p 58-60)
Chapter 13:
1 min, 20 sec
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View down the cell block in
Parchman State Penitentary Maximum Security Unit
Chapter 13:
1min, 34 sec
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