Obituaries

Rev. Reginald Green, 1939-2020

In Obituaries, Oral History, Parchman on 7 February 2020 with Comments Off on Rev. Reginald Green, 1939-2020

“I spent my 21st birthday in jail in Parchman.” Reginald Green went to Mississippi as a Freedom Rider in the summer of 1961 without telling his parents. I never asked my father and mother if I could go on the Freedom Rides, for fear that they would say no. Out of respect I would have […]

Remembering Marvin Rich

In Obituaries, Riders on the Rides on 7 January 2019 with Comments Off on Remembering Marvin Rich

by Dave Dennis Marvin Rich, a longtime leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who was instrumental in organizing the Freedom Rides as well as later campaigns, died on December 29, 2018. As a student at Washington University in St. Louis in 1946, Rich helped found a chapter of CORE and integrate the university. By 1961 he was working in CORE’s […]

Letter from a Jackson Jail: John Moody (1931-2018)

In Archival Documents, Obituaries, Riders on the Rides on 18 December 2018 with Comments Off on Letter from a Jackson Jail: John Moody (1931-2018)

John Moody died on Friday, December 14. He was a student at Howard University when he joined the Freedom Rides, one of six Howard students to do so. He was already a veteran of civil disobedience (AKA #GoodTrouble), as a member of the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG), which staged protests and sit-ins in and around […]