Archive for November 2008

The Rebel Army

In Archival Fashions, Archival Photographs on 18 November 2008 tagged Joseph Scherschel, Life Magazine with Comments Off on The Rebel Army

Update 6/8/2020: This missing photo above is due to a link gone dead. I originally linked the image from the Life/Google page where it lived, but it’s no longer there, and I haven’t been able to find it yet. It’s a color photograph of presumably an American soldier who is supposed to be protecting the […]

21 Months

In Freedom Riders on Obama's Victory on 13 November 2008 with 2 comments

This is the fourth in a series of posts by Freedom Riders in response to Barack Obama’s victory (see the other entries here.) Helen Singleton was a student at Santa Monica City College when she joined the Freedom Rides, along with her husband, Robert. They were arrested July 30, 1961, at the train station in […]

Miscegenation!

In Freedom Riders on Obama's Victory on 12 November 2008 with 2 comments

This is the third in a series of posts by Freedom Riders in response to Barack Obama’s victory (see the other entries here.) Margaret Leonard grew up in Macon and Atlanta, GA, and was a sophomore at Tulane University when she joined the Freedom Rides. She was arrested June 21, 1961, at the Trailways bus […]