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 a direct action campaign against unlawfully segregated public transport, where mixed race groups would travel together in breach of racist Jim Crow rules.
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.296224173896073/1483042335214245/?type=3
