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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.”