Separate but equal?. We cater to white trade only

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 BromleyWally Nelson Jim Peck

Policemen, Clarksville, Mississippi

King, Shuttlesworth and Abernathy

M.L. King’sNonviolent 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 FarmerJim 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

2 3 4 5 6 etc

Entrance

Plan of two-man maximum

security cell, Parchman

Penitentiary

ComodeSink

Bunk Bed

light

View from cell

Facing windows,bunks to left, feeding slot in

sliding barred door