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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 […]

Freedom Riders in the Smithsonian Magazine

In Press Clips on 31 January 2009 with 1 comment

On Sunday, May 14, 1961—mother’s day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound bus carrying black and white passengers through rural Alabama. The attackers pelted the vehicle with rocks and bricks, slashed tires, smashed windows with pipes and axes and lobbed a firebomb through a broken window. As smoke and flames filled the bus, the […]

Les voyageurs de la liberté ont ouvert la route à Obama

In I Am Big in France, Press Clips on 17 January 2009 tagged LeMonde2 with Comments Off on Les voyageurs de la liberté ont ouvert la route à Obama

Freedom Rider Frank Holloway appears on the cover of the January 18 issue of Le Monde2, the Parisian paper’s Sunday magazine. Le Monde reporter Nicolas Bourcier traveled through the south recently and talked to Riders Holloway, Hezekiah Watkins, Catherine Burks-Brooks, Margaret Leonard and Dave Dennis for their thoughts on Barack Obama’s victory and imminent inauguration. […]