Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, arrested for anti-segregation protests, Mississippi, USA, 1961

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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, arrested for anti-segregation protests, Mississippi, USA, 1961
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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as “Parchman Farm"). The following year she was the first white student to enroll at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, and served as the local secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

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Badass gal. All hail. ✊

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Wait, was she protesting anti-segregation? Or protesting segregation?

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Protesting segregation

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Now that’s what’s up

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If only this America still existed.

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She does?

I mean, she’s still alive XD

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She is but she recently got into fox news and supports trump now lol

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Edited for you sir, the dyslexia and spell assist has gotten one once again.

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That makes sense!

Although I don’t think I’d prefer the America of 1961 to today

I feel like we’ve come a long way in regard to civil rights since then, even with recent backsliding XD

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Thanks!

There’s a doc about this woman I have to figure out how watch. 

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She certainly looks like what I think of when somebody says “dangerous subversive criminal”

Or looks like a Swiftie.

Also a “dangerous subversive criminal” if given access to the playlist or bluetooth speaker.

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According to the quote posted above, she could also be a “Fuck you, we’re being nice today” type of person.

But let’s be honest, I know at least I have some gender bias here… Really she’s just one more complex person like the rest of us, which is actually kind of hope inspiring?

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M eye double es, eye double es, eye pee pee eye. Ya’ll been making a great comeback in education since 2025… 16th in the nation. Good job. Don’t go back to your uneducated racist bullshit anytime soon. Please and thank you.

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