These images (except for the first) are all taken from Stanley Nelson’s Film “Freedom Riders.” They are all taken from Chapter 13 of the PBS video, at the approximate minutes indicated into that chapter.
28 May 1961: We successfully integrated the Montgomery Trailways station, the scene of some terrible beatings inflicted just days before on Freedom Riders (mostly Nashville students) who came down from Birmingham just days before.
In the picture, with the page number of their images in Ethridge’s “Breach of Peace” are freedom Riders, left to right:
Front row, seated: David Fankhauser (p 58-60), Allen Cason, Jr. (p 58-59), David Myers (pp 58-59, 64-65), Pauline Knight-Ofosu (pp 58-59, 62-63), Franklin Hunt (?)(pp 58-59)
Back row: standing Larry Hunter (?) (pp 58-59, 61), William Manhoey (?) (pp58-59); seated, back to camera: Albert Lee Dunn (pp 58-59)
Picture source: Wilkenson, Brenda, “The Civil Rights Movement, An Illustrated History,” p. 82.
The Trailways bus leaves Montgomery Alabama under the watchful eyes of the National Guard
Source: Stanley Nelson’s, “Freedom Riders”,
Chapter 13:
0 min, 08 sec
Approach to the Jackson Mississippi Trailways Station,
Source: Stanley Nelson’s, “Freedom Riders”,
Chapter 13:
0 min, 28 sec
The Trailways bus pulls into the station.
Source: Stanley Nelson’s, “Freedom Riders”,
Chapter 13:
0 min, 28 sec
Arrests being made in Jackson Bus Station.
Source: Stanley Nelson’s, “Freedom Riders”,
Chapter 13:
0 min, 28 sec
Being led out the the station into the Paddy Wagon
Source: Stanley Nelson’s, “Freedom Riders”,
Chapter 13:
0 min, 28 sec
Arrested Freedom Riders are place in the Paddy Wagon.
Source: Stanley Nelson’s, Freedom Riders”,
Chapter 13:
0 min, 49 sec
Freedom Rider Mugshots:
Unknown Freedom Rider, Joan Trumphaue Mulholland (pp 86-89), David Fankhauser (p 58-60)
Chapter 13:
1 min, 20 sec
View down the cell block in Parchman State Penitentary Maximum Security Unit
Chapter 13:
1min, 34 sec
