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>Raised in the American South, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was well aware of racial bigotry and segregation. She describes her mother as a “stereotypical Georgia redneck” who held strongly to the beliefs of white racial superiority. Her privileged father came from Iowa and held less demeaning views, but neither of her parents would be prepared for what would take place between 1960 and 1964. Exposed to the conflicting values of segregation and the moral virtues written in the Bible, by her youth pastor, her life changed when a group of African American youths was invited to speak about their justification and efforts to end segregation.
>Though she wasn’t fully aware of all the danger she would face, Joan was given an opportunity to join the front lines of the movement as a student attending Duke University. When the Dean of Women at Duke pressured Joan to stop her activism she dropped out and devoted herself even more to the activism efforts, the sit-ins, pickets, demonstrations and the upcoming Freedom Rides.
>In early June 1961, after the first Freedom Ride ended with a firebombed bus, Joan jumped on a flight down to Mississippi to join her friends. As she and others poured in from around the country to continue the Freedom Rides until they were arrested, fined $200 and sent to prison for two months.
>Even as friends of hers continued to be beaten and killed, Joan continued to boldly participate in the civil rights efforts until the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964. By the time she was 19 years old, she had participated in over three dozen sit-ins and protests in the South against the treatment of black Americans, earning her a place on the Ku Klux Klan’s most-wanted list.
>Without any guarantee of success, Joan boldly risked her education, her family relationships, her safety and her life, yet she never gave up or lost a hold of her values.
>Though she wasn’t fully aware of all the danger she would face, Joan was given an opportunity to join the front lines of the movement as a student attending Duke University. When the Dean of Women at Duke pressured Joan to stop her activism she dropped out and devoted herself even more to the activism efforts, the sit-ins, pickets, demonstrations and the upcoming Freedom Rides.
>In early June 1961, after the first Freedom Ride ended with a firebombed bus, Joan jumped on a flight down to Mississippi to join her friends. As she and others poured in from around the country to continue the Freedom Rides until they were arrested, fined $200 and sent to prison for two months.
>Even as friends of hers continued to be beaten and killed, Joan continued to boldly participate in the civil rights efforts until the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964. By the time she was 19 years old, she had participated in over three dozen sit-ins and protests in the South against the treatment of black Americans, earning her a place on the Ku Klux Klan’s most-wanted list.
>Without any guarantee of success, Joan boldly risked her education, her family relationships, her safety and her life, yet she never gave up or lost a hold of her values.
