Archive for April 2009

Jackson Academy Honors Joan Trumpauer Mulholland

In Press Clips on 3 April 2009 with 5 comments

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was a Freedom Rider from Arlington, VA. After the rides she stayed in Jackson, attending Tougaloo College and continuing to work in the movement. She participated in the famous May 1963 sit-in at the Woolworths lunch counter in downtown Jackson, which yielded a well-known photograph by Fred Blackwell. Today she’s being honored […]