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Freedom Riders
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e_frp_025
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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Dates
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1961-05-24
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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Caption from the Associated Press reads, "MORE FREEDOM RIDERS---A new busload of freedom riders including four white college professors and three Negro students, arrives in Montgomery today under guard of police and National Guard. Center with glasses is Rev. William S. Coffin Jr. At left partly hidden is Dr. David E. Swift, and behind him wearing glasses is Dr. John D. Maguire." (AP Wirephoto 1961)
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Freedom Riders
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e_frp_027
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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Dates
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1961-05-20
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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Caption from the Associated Press reads, "FREEDOM RIDER ON THE RUN---An unidentified Negro freedom rider at lower left, runs around the back of the bus station in Montgomery today to escape a mob which met the group at the bus station. He was caught and beaten as were many others in the racially mixed group." (AP Wirephoto 1961)
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Freedom Riders
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e_frp_028
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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Dates
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1961-05-24
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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Caption from the Associated Press reads, "SENDOFF---Rev. Martin Luther King, Negro integration leader, shakes hands with Paul Dietrich just before a bus of freedom riders left Montgomery today. Dietrich, white ministerial student from Virginia, joined the freedom riders here." (AP Wirephoto 1961)
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Freedom Riders
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e_frp_032
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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1961-05-31
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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Caption from the Associated Press reads, "RIDERS ENTER TRAIN STATION---Freedom riders talk with newsmen as they enter the train station in Jackson yesterday. From top left they are: Charles A. Haynie, Ithaca, N.Y., Joe Griffith, Ithaca, and Tom Green Ithaca, top center. James Davis Jr., front left, and Robert L. Heller, Rockville Center, N.Y. in foreground. All are in city jail today." (AP Wirephoto 1961)
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Freedom Riders
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e_frp_033
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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1961-05-31
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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Caption from the Associated Press reads, "RIDERS ARRIVE BY TRAIN---Five of the 8 freedom riders arriving in Jackson leave the train which brought them from New Orleans yesterday. The group, which included four white male students from Cornell University, were arrested when they sought to use white facilities in the depot." (AP Wirephoto 1961)
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Freedom Riders
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e_frp_034
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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Dates
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1961-05-25
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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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)
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Freedom Riders
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e_frp_035
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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1961-05-06
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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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)
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Freedom Riders
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e_frp_029
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Creator
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Associated Press (Photographer)
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Dates
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1961-05-15
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Freedom Riders press photographs album
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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)