Parchman Penitentiary

ID: 6134 ~ Source: Collection: Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman) Photo Collections Call Number: PI/PEN/P37.4 - 72 System ID: 99006 and WikiCommons.

Mississippi Department of Archives, https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/parchman/detail/22824. ~ Creator: Parchman Penitentiary ~ Date: Unknown

This file appears in: Shirley Thompson

From Parchman Penitentiary. Male prisoners on the porch of a one-story building with a long table in the yard.

This file appears in: Shirley Thompson

Shirley Thompson

By Kalie A. Dutra & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

Shirley Thompson, the youngest of the Thompson sisters, joined the New Orleans Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Freedom Rides as they tested the Interstate Commerce Commission’s desegregation of bus…