Separate but equal?
We cater to white trade only
Lynching in Marion, Indiana, 1930
Segregated facilities greet returning black WW II soldiers
1947: The First Freedom Ride Ernie Bromley Wally Nelson Jim Peck
Policemen, Clarksville, Mississippi
King, Shuttlesworth and Abernathy
M.L. King’s Nonviolent Principles for the Civil Rights Movement
King and Abernathy organize Montgomery Bus Boycott
Drs. King and Abernathy jailed
Abernathy’s Home Is Bombed
Segregated facilities were the rule until the 1960s.
Map of Freedom Rides
Robert and John F. Kennedy
Bus burns, injured Freedom Riders huddle on grass
Bus Is Fully Engulfed
Burned Out Bus, Battered Freedom Riders on the Grass
It took more than 50 stitches to close the wounds in Jim Peck’s head
Lewis and Zwerg after Montgomery beatings
Jim Zwerg hospitalized after beating in Montgomery Alabama
Bandaged John Lewis & James Farmer Jim Lawson and C.T. Vivian
Robert Kennedy sent John Seigenthaler to Montgomery where he was beaten unconscious.
Montgomery to Jackson Map
National Guard posted outside Greyhound Station
Freedom Riders wait to depart from Montgomery Trailways Station David Fankhauser
Ready to board the bus in Montgomery
King bids goodbye to Freedom Rider
National Guard outside Montgomery bus station
View from the window as bus departs Montgomery
National Guard posted on bus
Freedom Riders are transferred (Jim Farmer in front)
Mugshot, D. Fankhauser, 28 May 1961
Jackson City Jail. Windows to the bull pen which housed the first twenty Freedom Riders are in far third floor. (picture: 1989)
Parchman prisoners chop cotton “down on the County Farm…”
Maximum Security Unit, Parchman Penitentiary Catwalk between rows of cells Showers etc Entrance
Plan of two-man maximum security cell, Parchman Penitentiary Comode Sink Bunk Bed light
View from cell Facing windows, bunks to left, feeding slot in sliding barred door