Obituaries

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 […]

Rev. Reginald Green, 1939-2020

In Obituaries, Oral History, Parchman on 7 February 2020 with Comments Off on Rev. Reginald Green, 1939-2020

“I spent my 21st birthday in jail in Parchman.” Reginald Green went to Mississippi as a Freedom Rider in the summer of 1961 without telling his parents. I never asked my father and mother if I could go on the Freedom Rides, for fear that they would say no. Out of respect I would have […]

Remembering Marvin Rich

In Obituaries, Riders on the Rides on 7 January 2019 with Comments Off on Remembering Marvin Rich

by Dave Dennis Marvin Rich, a longtime leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who was instrumental in organizing the Freedom Rides as well as later campaigns, died on December 29, 2018. As a student at Washington University in St. Louis in 1946, Rich helped found a chapter of CORE and integrate the university. By 1961 he was working in CORE’s […]