Separate but equal?

King, Shuttlesworth and Abernathy

M.L. King’sPrinciples of Nonviolence for the Civil

Rights Movement

Abernathy’s Home Is Bombed

Segregated facilities were the rule until the 1960s.

Policemen, Clarksville, Mississippi

Robert and John F.

Kennedy

Map of Freedom Rides

Bus burns, injured Freedom Riders huddle on grass

Bus Is Fully Engulfed

Burned Out Bus, Battered Freedom Riders on the Grass

Jim Peck after being beaten with

pipes and bats.(52 stitches)

Lewis and Zwerg after Montgomery beatings

Jim Zwerg hospitalized after beating

in Montgomery

Alabama

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

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)

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

CommodeSink

Bunk Bed

light

Sliding gate

View from cell

Facing windows,bunks to left, feeding slot in

sliding barred door

Windows