Archive for May 2011

Freedom Rider Diary from Jackson City Jail

In Archival Documents, Riders on the Rides on 13 May 2011 tagged Joan Mulholland with 1 comment

Joan Mulholland kept a diary of her time in the Jackson city jail. The jailed riders wore their own clothes in Jackson, and Mulholland was able to hide a pencil and several sheets of crumpled paper in the hem of her skirt. When she was transferred to Parchman, she had to wear prison-issue clothing, but […]

From the Holocaust to the Freedom Rides

In Oral History, Riders on the Rides on 7 May 2011 with 2 comments

At least three of the Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1961 had managed to survive or escape the Holocaust as children. Alex Weiss (above) was born in Vienna, Austria, in May 1936, and emigrated with parents and sister in 1940. In May 1940 they arrested my father. There was one line that said, […]