Archival Photographs

Dave Morton, 1939-2020

In Archival Photographs, Obituaries, Oral History on 10 May 2020 with Comments Off on Dave Morton, 1939-2020

Didn’t particularly feel like a hero, but I knew the guys from Michigan and California I was in jail with, I knew they didn’t get a reception like that. It was on the news. It was on the front page of The Star. The best thing, I went to Al’s Breakfast in Dinkytown. He wouldn’t […]

A Birmingham Tableau

In Archival Photographs on 14 May 2019 with Comments Off on A Birmingham Tableau

  Photo by Tommy Langston: A Klan-led mob beats a Freedom Rider at the Birmingham Bus Station, May 14, 1961 Fifty-eight years ago today the Freedom Riders were attacked twice in Alabama, yielding two iconic images of the movement. First came the burning bus just outside Anniston, the result of a Klan firebomb. Later in […]

New Footage of the Freedom Riders in Jackson

In Archival Documents, Archival Photographs, Video on 27 May 2016 with Comments Off on New Footage of the Freedom Riders in Jackson

Mississippi, U.S.A. — a 30-minute TV news report first aired 55 years ago — is a significant new addition to the visual history of the Freedom Rides, and a stark portrait of Jackson on the verge of great change. The news report covered the arrival of the first Riders into Jackson on May 24, 1961. […]