Mississippi

Marilyn Irene Eisenberg

Released

Marilyn Irene Eisenberg was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 15, 1961, for participating in the Freed...

John M. Evans

Released

John M. Evans was one of the fifteen Episcopal clergymen arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13, 19...

Medgar Evers

Released

Medgar Evers was the NAACP field secretary for Mississippi and the state's foremost civil-rights organizer. In...

David Brokaw Fankhauser

Released

David Brokaw Fankhauser was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 28, 1961, for participating in the Freedo...

James Farmer

Released

James Farmer was the national director of the Congress of Racial Equality and the principal organizer of the 1...

Miriam Feingold

Released

Miriam Feingold was a 20-year-old Swarthmore College student from Brooklyn who rode as a Freedom Rider in 1961...

Robert Earl Filner

Released

Robert Earl Filner, born in Pittsburgh and later a member of Congress and mayor of San Diego, was arrested in...

Ralph Floyd

Released

Ralph Floyd was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 4, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent sit-in at...

Mary Freelon

Released

Mary Freelon was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 16, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides an...

Judith Ann Frieze

Released

Judith Ann Frieze was a Smith College student and NAACP member from Boston, born about 1939 and joined a Montg...

Winston Fuller

Released

Winston Fuller was a UCLA graduate student, born about 1937 and joined the July 30, 1961 Illinois Central trai...

John Goodrich Gager Jr.

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John Goodrich Gager Jr. was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 7, 1961, for participating in the Freedo...

Glenda Jean Gaither

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Glenda Jean Gaither was an eighteen-year-old Claflin College student arrested after arriving by train in Jacks...

Donna Sage Garde

Released

Donna Sage Garde was born about 1935 and traveled from Nashville with three other Freedom Riders and was arres...

Maxie Jewel Gardner

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Maxie Jewel Gardner was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 22, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent...

Francis L. Geddes

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Francis L. Geddes was a San Francisco minister and was arrested with eight other airport Freedom Riders at the...

Joseph Edward Gerbac

Released

Joseph Edward Gerbac was a UCLA student, born about 1939 and rode the Illinois Central train from New Orleans...

Samuel Givens

Released

Samuel Givens was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 7, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent sit-in...

Richard LeRoy Gleason

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Richard LeRoy Gleason was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 2, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...

Lionel Goldbart

Released

Lionel Goldbart was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 9, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides...

Albert Forrest Gordon

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Albert Forrest Gordon, a high-school teacher, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 9, 1961, for parti...

Quinland Reeves Gordon

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Quinland Reeves Gordon was one of the fifteen Episcopal clergymen arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on Septemb...

Gary Green Jr.

Released

Gary Green Jr. was one of the demonstrators in the Jackson, Mississippi park desegregation protests and was ar...

Gwendolyn Green

Released

Gwendolyn Green was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 8, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides...