A Summer To Remember
A photographer originally from Mississippi is working on a new project and photographing portraits of the Freedom Riders who worked to integrate bus stations, train stations and airports in the south during the summer of 1961.
The present-day portraits are paired with the then-prisoners mug shots from the Jackson City Jail.
The photographs are very moving and the stories of some of the Freedom Riders are equally passionate, as these young men and women were willing to serve time in prison to preserve justice.
The series of photographs is called "Breach of Peace: Portraits of the Mississippi Freedom Riders" and some of the photos were featured in the The New York Times Magazine on July 2, 2006.
The present-day portraits are paired with the then-prisoners mug shots from the Jackson City Jail.
The photographs are very moving and the stories of some of the Freedom Riders are equally passionate, as these young men and women were willing to serve time in prison to preserve justice.
The series of photographs is called "Breach of Peace: Portraits of the Mississippi Freedom Riders" and some of the photos were featured in the The New York Times Magazine on July 2, 2006.
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