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1. Freedom Rider Diary from Jackson City Jail  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 […]...
2. What They Wore  When the first groups of Freedom Riders were transferred from Jackson jails to Parchman, the state prison in the Delta, the male Riders were made to strip and stand naked for a long time while the guards gawked at them. Once they had been taken to their maximum security cells, they were issued their prison […]...
3. Barnett to Kunstler: What If Your Daughter Married One?  Radical lawyer William Kunstler (Wiki bio) traveled frequently to Jackson during 1961 to represent Freedom Riders in various regards. In June he came to town to talk to Governor Ross Barnett (Wiki bio) on behalf of several Riders who were staging a hunger strike in Parchman, the state prison. After Kunstler returned to New York, […]...
4. Joan Mulholland: The Dean of Women Made Me Call Mom  Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was a freshman at Duke in the spring of 1960, and was actively involved in the local sit-in movement, something that she hadn’t shared with her parents until the university’s Dean of Women got involved. In Durham in 1960, we picketed pretty regularly, almost daily, and I was arrested twice at sit-ins. […]...
5. Breach at the Harlem Book Fair on C-SPAN2  I’m moderating a panel on the Freedom Rides this Saturday, July 19, at the Harlem Book Fair. The panel runs from 6:15 to 7:15 PM, and will include three Freedom Riders: Helen and Bob Singleton, who are featured on the covers of the book, and Lewis Zuchman. It will also be broadcast live on C-SPAN2, […]...