Tri-State Trailways station in Jackson, Mississippi 

ID: 6127 ~ Source: WikiCommons ~ Date: December 31, 1949
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Tri-State Trailways station in Jackson, Mississippi 
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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…