April 9, 2021
Mug shots of some of the Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, are on display at the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Freedom Riders were a brave group of more than 400 civil rights activists, many of whom were just teenagers, who put their lives on the line to dismantle segregated busing in 1961. By doing so, they secured what historian Ray Arsenault called the civil rights movement’s “first unambiguous victory” [PDF]. To mark the 60th anniversary of their nonviolent campaign, here are some essential facts about the Freedom Riders and their mission.
1. The Freedom Riders tested states’ compliance with two Supreme Court rulings.
Our ultimate choice is desegregation or disintegration - recovering the lost words of a jailed civil rights strategist
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Our ultimate choice is desegregation or disintegration – recovering the lost words of a jailed civil rights strategist
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Winfred Rembert, artist whose work was rooted in the Jim Crow US South, is dead at the age of 75
Winfred Rembert, the self-taught African American artist whose life story was deeply rooted in the struggle against Jim Crow segregation in the US South, died at his home in New Haven, Connecticut on March 31 at the age of 75. Rembert, who survived a near-lynching as a young man and served seven years on a Georgia chain gang, achieved a measure of recognition, in the last decade of his life, for the vivid works he created on carved and dyed leather.
Winfred Rembert,