Archive for September 2018

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 […]

Jesse Davis: “I Was Feeling Free.”

In Paperback, Riders on the Rides on 12 September 2018 with Comments Off on Jesse Davis: “I Was Feeling Free.”

The new edition features 16 additional Riders I found (or who found me) after the first edition came out in 2008. I was especially happy to add Jesse Davis, from Jackson, Mississippi. A number of the Riders arrested in Jackson were locals — from somewhere in the state — but as a group they proved […]