Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders

(Left to right: Stokely Carmichael, Margaret Leonard, Kredelle Petway, Paul Green)

In 1961, hundreds of black and white volunteers occupied segregated waiting areas, lunch counters, and restrooms in the southern United States to compel the federal government to enforce a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared discrimination in interstate public transportation illegal. The journalist and photographer Eric Etheridge provides visual and oral histories of the courageous men and women known as the Freedom Riders in the 1960s.

Gloria Bouknight, at 20 years old, and at 74 in 2015. While living in New York City,
she discovered the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, on a visit to Harlem,
and became an active member. Since then, she started a business representing
European designers in the United States, and she now works as a
wardrobe consultant for executive women.

Credit

 

Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Eric Etheridge

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