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Title: Freedom Riders
Identifier: e_frp_034
Creator: Associated Press (Photographer)
Dates: 1961-05-25
Resource: Freedom Riders press photographs album
Description: Caption from the Associated Press reads, "GOVERNOR LISTENS---Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi, listens to a question from a newsman at press conference in Jackson today. Gov. Barnett said anyone breaking the state laws will be arrested." (AP Wirephoto 1961)

Title: Freedom Riders
Identifier: e_frp_035
Creator: Associated Press (Photographer)
Dates: 1961-05-06
Resource: Freedom Riders press photographs album
Description: Caption from the Associated Press reads, "TAKES FIFTH AMENDMENT---Mrs. Lannie Linton, registrar of voters in Claiborne Parish, refused to answer questions from the U.S. Civil Rights Commission about voting records in the north Louisiana parish. She pleaded the Fifth Amendment. Dist. Atty. Fred L. Jackson of Homer, La., gave the commission a statement in which Mrs. Linton claimed the hearing was similar to Cuban Premier Castroís public trials for Cuban patriots. The commission excused Mrs. Linton and later ened its probe into alleged discrimination against Negro voters in Louisiana." (AP Wirephoto 1961)

Title: Freedom Riders
Identifier: e_frp_029
Creator: Associated Press (Photographer)
Dates: 1961-05-15
Resource: Freedom Riders press photographs album
Description: Caption from the Associated Press reads, "BYSTANDER BEAEN---Jimmie Ayers, 71, at a hospital where he was treated for cuts and bruises following a racial demonstration here yesterday. Ayers said he was standing on a sidewalk a block away from a bus station where the violence flared when three white men leaped from an automobile and attacked him." (AP Wirephoto 1961)