{"id":508,"date":"2013-05-24T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T20:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2013-05-24T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T20:18:23","slug":"freedom-riders-return-to-parchman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Riders Return to Parchman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_15552.jpg?resize=650%2C433\" alt=\"_MG_1555\" title=\"_MG_1555\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_15552.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_15552.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On May 25, 2011, as part of a week-long commemoration in Mississippi of the 1961 Freedom Rides, many of the Riders who had been incarcerated in Parchman that summer returned to the prison and toured Unit 17, the maximum security building where they had been locked up.    <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_14732.jpg?resize=650%2C433\" alt=\"_MG_1473\" title=\"_MG_1473\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_14732.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_14732.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David Fankhauser<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_14351.jpg?resize=650%2C433\" alt=\"_MG_1435\" title=\"_MG_1435\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_14351.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_14351.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1961 Unit 17 was also the site of death row and the gas chamber, which was located in the rooms off the main cell block to the right in the diagram above. Unit 17 no longer houses any prisoners, but inmates are still executed here, now by lethal injection.  <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_17201.jpg?resize=650%2C433\" alt=\"_MG_1720\" title=\"_MG_1720\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_17201.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_17201.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bill Harbour <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_16971.jpg?resize=650%2C433\" alt=\"_MG_1697\" title=\"_MG_1697\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_16971.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_16971.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ellen Ziskind<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_16251.jpg?resize=650%2C433\" alt=\"_MG_1625\" title=\"_MG_1625\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_16251.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_16251.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Larry Hunter <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_15951.jpg?resize=650%2C433\" alt=\"_MG_1595\" title=\"_MG_1595\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_15951.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_15951.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rick Sheviakov. In the background is David Baer, son of Rider Byron Baer, who was Sheviakov&#8217;s cellmate and died in 2007. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_16761.jpg?resize=650%2C433\" alt=\"_MG_1676\" title=\"_MG_1676\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_16761.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_16761.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Judith Frieze Wright <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_17972.jpg?resize=650%2C433\" alt=\"_MG_1797\" title=\"_MG_1797\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_17972.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_17972.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joy Reagon-Leonard<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_14501.jpg?resize=650%2C433\" alt=\"_MG_1450\" title=\"_MG_1450\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_14501.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_14501.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dion Diamond<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_14851.jpg?resize=650%2C433\" alt=\"_MG_1485\" title=\"_MG_1485\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_14851.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/breachofpeace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MG_14851.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dion Diamond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 25, 2011, as part of a week-long commemoration in Mississippi of the 1961 Freedom Rides, many of the Riders who had been incarcerated in Parchman that summer returned to the prison and toured Unit 17, the maximum security building where they had been locked up. 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