Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1961, and was confined for tw
Mulholland in 2013
Joan Trumpauer (Mulholland), Jackson Mississippi, 1961
Michael Schwerner
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Michael Henry "Mickey" Schwerner was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three civil rights workers murdered in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Schwerne
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
…a necklace out of it. She also carried a piece of the glass in her wallet for years, feeling it every time she reached for her change. Mulholland gave Michael and Rita Schwerner an orientation on what to know about being a white activist in the state of Mississippi. The next day, June 21, 1964, Michael was killed, along with…
Portrait of Schwerner
Missing persons poster created by the FBI in 1964 that shows the photographs of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner
A memorial to victims Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney, and Michael Schwerner at Mt. Nebo Missionary Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Mississippi
State of Mississippi roadside marker denoting the location where the 1964 murders of American civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner took place