Riders on the Rides

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 […]

Lula White: “The idea that people would actually just disobey the law was electrifying.”

In Paperback, Parchman, Riders on the Rides on 14 September 2018 with Comments Off on Lula White: “The idea that people would actually just disobey the law was electrifying.”

I almost found Lula White the first time around. I was pretty sure she was living in or near New Haven, Connecticut, but I never could find the right phone number for her. That problem was solved when I spoke at the the New Haven Public Library in the fall of 2008. They told me […]