1961 arrest photo of CORE member Shirley Thompson as Freedom Rider

ID: 6131 ~ Source: The Mississippi Department of Archives and History and the CORE Project.
Jackson, Mississippi Police Department, “1961 arrest photo of CORE member Shirley Thompson as Freedom Rider,” The CORE Project, accessed February 14, 2022, http://www.thecoreproject.org/omeka/items/show/72.
 ~ Creator: Jackson, Mississippi Police Department ~ Date: June 6, 1961
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This is the arrest photo of New Orleans CORE member Shirley Thompson as a Freedom Rider. In the photo, she is only 18 years old.

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

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