Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PF-26262 MINISTERS, RELIGION PROFESSORS JAILED
AS FREEDOM RIDERS MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- These “Freedom Riders” were smiling
as they arrived here by bus, but all were arrested the next day as they
sought service at a segregated bus terminal lunch counter before their
scheduled departure for Jackson, Miss. From left are Dr. John Maguire and Dr.
David Swift, religion professors at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.;
George B. Smith (head partially visible), Negro law student at Yale
University; Dr. William S. Coffin, Jr., Yale chaplain and head of the group;
the Rev. Gaylor [Gaylord] Noyce, associate professor of the Yale Divinity
School; Clyde Carter and Charles Jones, Negro theological students at
Johnston C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C. Others arrested at the “white
only” counter were four Negro integration leaders, the Rev. Ralph D.
Abernathy, pastor of First Baptist church here; the Rev. Fred L.
Shuttlesworth of Birmingham; the Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, an executive of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Bernard S. Lee, one of nine
students expelled from Alabama State College last year for trying to stage a
sit-in demonstration. Another Negro leader, the Rev. Solomon S. Seay,
executive secretary of the Montgomery Improvement Association, was short in
the wrist the same day, reportedly by a white man in a passing car. Credit
Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-5D-61-DP)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Maguire, John David., Swift, David Everett, 1914-, Smith, George Bundy., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006., Noyce, Gaylord B., Carter, Clyde Larocque., Jones, Charles, 1937-2019.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Freedom Rides, 1961., Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery., Clergy--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Seminarians--Alabama--Montgomery.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Race relations., Montgomery (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358357