Alexander Mattahan Anderson
Biography
Alexander Mattahan Anderson was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and challenging segregation in interstate transportation — one of the arrests recorded by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and preserved in the Civil Rights Digital Library. The catalog establishes the arrest, the participation, and the individually identified police photograph, but not the court disposition, any transfer to Parchman, or the physical release date; those fields are unresolved pending county-jail, court, or penitentiary records.
He was the pastor of an African Methodist Episcopal church in Nashville and rode the Trailways bus from Montgomery to Jackson. The mugshot title is what supplies the middle name Mattahan; he is indexed elsewhere as Alexander M. Anderson.
