1961 arrest photo of CORE member Jean Thompson as Freedom Rider

ID: 6126 ~ Source: The Mississippi Department of Archives and History and the CORE Project. Jackson, Mississippi Police Department, “1961 arrest photo of CORE member Jean Thompson as Freedom Rider,” The CORE Project, accessed February 14, 2022, http://www.thecoreproject.org/omeka/items/show/70. ~ Creator: Jackson, Mississippi Police Department
 ~ Date: 1961
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1961 arrest photo of CORE member Jean Thompson as Freedom Rider
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This is the arrest photo of New Orleans CORE member Jean Thompson as a Freedom Rider. In the photo, she is only 19 years old.

Along with her sisters, Alice and Shirley, she was one of the earliest members of New Orleans CORE.

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By Kalie A. Dutra & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor
On May 24, 1961, Jean Thompson, at age 19, participated in the Freedom Ride from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi as civil rights activists tested the Interstate Commerce Commission’s desegregation of bus transit. Jean’s bus was the first…