Parchman Gate New Photo

ID: 6139 ~ Source: WikiCommons ~ Creator: Whisper to Me ~ Date: June 1, 2013

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Mississippi State Penitentiary main entrance. Also known as Parchman Penitentiary

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…