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On this day, 24 July 1961, Kredelle Petway was arrested at Jackson airport in Mississippi along with her brother, father and another man. Petway, who was born in Alabama but was studying in Tallahassee, Florida, had travelled back home to participate in a freedom ride from Montgomery to Jackson.
Freedom riding was an ultimately successful direct action campaign against unlawfully segregated public transport, where mixed race groups would travel together in breach of racist Jim Crow rules.
In 2020, Petway told Montgomery Advertiser journalist Shannon Heupel: “I think now that, although there are laws on the books that support integration and supposedly support civil rights and human rights, I think it’s been seriously eroded". And she cautioned that Black people “cannot sit and rest on our laurels. We cannot rest on the legislation that’s supposedly in place. Obviously, it’s not protecting us as it should.”
Learn more about Jim Crow in these books by David Pilgrim, founder of the Jim Crow Museum: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/david-pilgrim https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2042246802627126/?type=3