Twenty-seven Freedom Riders were arrested on May 24, 1961 for entering a whites-only waiting room in Jackson, Mississippi. They were sent to Parchman Prison where they continued their protest from inside. | American Experience | PBS

In May 1961, Freedom Riders began to journey throughout the South to challenge public bus segregation. Joan T. Mulholland — a white demonstrator who rode in solidarity — reflects on her arrest and her experience confronting racial discrimination: https://comca.st/35Uwy62 | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement