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Mug shots of the Freedom Riders arrested in Mississippi, including John Lewis, upper left, and Catherine Burks-Brooks, top row, third from left.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Upended car damaged and smoking after a riot protesting the Freedom Riders arrival in Montgomery, Alabama.
Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Photo by Norman Dean, Birmingham News.
Martin Luther King, Jr., with Freedom Riders as they prepare to leave Montgomery, Ala., for Jackson, Miss.
Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Photo by Norman Dean, Birmingham News.
In February 1946, Jackie Robinson, the first Black man to play in major league baseball, and his wife, Rachel, boarded a plane in Los Angeles, bound for spring training in Daytona Beach, Fla. They had first-class tickets.
Attorney Marcy Croft, who is representing the inmates is suing the Mississippi Department of Corrections about this issue as well as other jail inadequacies, said that the food being served is often “spoiled, rotten, molded or uncooked.”
Spoiled, rotten, molded or uncooked: Inmates sue Mississippi Department of Corrections over gross food msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
officials in mississippi think they found a legal way to circumvent desegregation. their method, calling any defiance of segregation a threat to the peace in an area where popular feelings run so high. the freedom riders included james bevel, john lewis, james lawson, among others, were sent parchman state penitentiary. so this guy takes me back to the jail cell. when prison doors slam, it has an effect on you. that sound you felt you would never get out again. as soon as the agitators leave and get tired of trying to stir up trouble, we re going back to the same old way of living that s made our city such a wonderful place in which to live. thank you very much, mr. mayor. this attempt to stop the