Appendix: Roster of Freedom Riders 559
Jackson, MS (Trailways terminal),
June 23, 1961
Name Race Sex Age Residence Occupation or Status
ARMSTRONG, THOMAS B M 19 Silver Creek, MS Student, Tougaloo College
M
ADISON III
Born in Silver Creek, MS, on 1941. Student activist affiliated with CORE, SNCC, and the
NAACP in 1961. Graduate of Tougaloo College (B.A., biology, 1964). Voter registration
worker in Mississippi in the mid-1960s. Currently lives in Naperville, IL. Contract specialist
with the U.S. Postal Service.
HARRISON, MARY A F 21 San Antonio, TX Student, Tougaloo College
M
AGDALENE
Raised in an Asian-American military family in Germany, France, the Philippines, and Ft.
Riley, KS. Recently retired from the Jackson, MS, school system. Married name: Mary
Harrison Lee.
PRICE, ELNORA R. B F 26 Raymond, MS No occupation given
ROSS, JOSEPH LEE B M 25 Nashville, TN Student, Tennessee State Univ.
New Orleans, LA, to Jackson, MS
(Illinois Central RR), June 25, 1961
Name Race Sex Age Residence Occupation or Status
BLEVINS, GEORGE W M 21 Los Angeles, CA Student, Chouinard Institute (Los
M
ARION Angeles, CA)
Worked with New Orleans CORE in the summer of 1961.
BOUKNIGHT, GLORIA B F 20 Columbia, SC Legal secretary
L
EEVARE-DEE
BROOKS, ARTHUR, JR. B M 22 Los Angeles, CA Student, Los Angeles City
College
DOLAN, JOHN LUTHER W M 20 Berkeley, CA Student, Univ. of California,
Berkeley
Born in San Francisco, CA, on April 11, 1941. Graduate of Univ. of California, Berkeley
(B.A., 1962) and the Univ. of California, San Francisco (M.D., 1968). Member of Berkeley
CORE until 1963. Worked with New Orleans CORE in summer of 1961. Social worker in
Alameda County (1962–1963). Interned under black NAACP activist Dr. Nathaniel
Burbridge. Worked in medical clinics for farm workers (1970–1971). Long career in
emergency medicine (1968–1998), mostly in Richmond, CA. Recently earned an M.A.
degree in history and humanities at Sacramento State Univ., completing a thesis on the
history of science in China. Currently lives in Emeryville, CA, and Ashland, OR, and works
part-time at VA clinic in Oakland.
HAMILTON, MARY B F 25 Los Angeles, CA Teacher, Ascension Grammar
L
UCILLE School
Born in Cedar Rapids, IA, in October 1935. Raised in Denver. Graduate of Briarcliff
College (B.A.) and Manhattanville College (M.A.). Member of CORE staff (1961–1964).
CORE’s Southern regional director before marriage to Walter Young, brother of SCLC
leader Andrew Young. Following divorce and second marriage, she taught high school
English in Ossining, NY, for a number of years. After retiring, she tutored Spanish students.
Died of ovarian cancer on November 11, 2002, at the age of 67.