![]() Photo by Tommy Langston for the Birmingham Post Herald, May 14, 1961. Freedom Riders beaten by a mob in Birmingham, Alabama. In Montgomery, riders and 1500 supporters were trapped inside the First Baptist Church by an angry mob. The 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders’ Mugshots: A Visual Intervention Johnna Margot Henry, Independent Researcher small, unremarkable image appeared at the bottom right corner of the issue of the Jackson, Mississippi, daily newspaper, the Clarion Ledger. Fifteen Freedom Riders that arrived on a second bus in Jackson, Mississippi, are loaded into a paddy wagon at the bus station, May 24, 1961. Under the protection of the Kennedy Administration, CORE riders decide to end the rides on May 18. ![]() On May 15, the riders didn't have a driver because of threats so they flew from Birmingham to New Orleans. Once the riders reached Atlanta, they met with Martin Luther King Jr on May 13. In Birmingham, several whites attacked the riders.Īlong the way, riders were arrested in Charlotte, NC and attacked in South Hill, SC. One of the buses was burned outside of Anniston, Alabama. In the second week of rides, the riders were severely beaten. The case declared segregation in interstate buses and rail stations unconstitutional. ![]() on two public buses that were headed for the segregated south.įreedom Rides were intended to challenge the Jim Crow laws in the South and to test the Supreme Court ruling of Boynton v. Seven African Americans and six whites left Washington D.C. The first freedom ride took place on May 4, 1961. More on this part of the story follows later. As organizer James Farmer stated, their new goal was to Make segregationist practices so expensive as to become infeasible. Mug shots of some of the more than 300 freedom riders who were arrested in Mississippi during the summer of 1961. Freedom Riders were African American and white. The book, a collection of Etheridges recent portraits of 80 Freedom Riders juxtaposed with mug shots from their arrests in 1961, includes interviews with. CORE and the Freedom Riders adapted to this strategy, shifting their focus from a media campaign to filling the Mississippi jails. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Deep South of the United States.
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