Freedom Riders

Eric Etheridge, Joseph Portiglione SCW©2010 The Freedom Rides eventually encompassed a campaign that lasted seven months, involved over 400 African Americans and whites, and desegregated dozens of bus and train...

African American Women Freedom Riders 1961 SCW©2015. These 1961 mugshots, by the segregationist Jackson, MS police department, highlight the significant, yet often overlooked, role African American women played in the...

SCW©2010. Mug shots by Jackson, MS Police Dept. Contemporary photographs by Eric Etheridge. Bus photograph Joseph Postiglione, courtesy of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.