578 Appendix: Roster of Freedom Riders
HANDY, WILLIE B M 18 Houston, TX Student, Texas Southern Univ.;
Progressive Youth Assoc. activist
HOGROBROOKS, HOLLY B M 20 Houston, TX Student, Texas Southern Univ.;
Progressive Youth Assoc. activist
Born and raised in Houston, TX. Active in Houston civil rights movement. Graduate of
Texas Southern Univ. (B.A., journalism, 1963). From 1963 to 1968, worked as a county
clerk, wrote for black newspapers The Informer and Forward Times, and became active in
politics. Worked for a public relations firm in the 1980s. Instructor of communications at
Texas Southern Univ. (1968–1980, 1990–present). Currently lives in Houston.
HUTCHINS, JOHN B M 20 Houston, TX Student, Texas Southern Univ.;
Progressive Youth Assoc. activist
JONES, EDDIE B M 19 Houston, TX Student, Texas Southern Univ.;
Progressive Youth Assoc. activist
JONES, ROBERT E. B M 32 Houston, TX Progressive Youth Assoc. activist
KAUFMAN, ROBERT W M 23 Los Angeles, CA US History Graduate Student,
P
AUL Univ. of California, Berkeley
Born in California on January 27, 1938. A Communist-affiliated peace and justice activist
and longtime columnist and staff reporter for the Berkeley, CA–based newspaper People’s
World. Died of cancer in Berkeley in July 1979, at the age of 41. Author of posthumously
published Selected Writings by Bob Kaufman (1980).
KLEINMAN, ELLEN W F 19 Los Angeles, CA Student, Los Angeles City College
Graduate of California State Univ., Los Angeles (B.A., 1967) and UCLA (M.S.W., 1979).
Active in peace and women’s movements. Social worker specializing in children’s welfare.
Worked with Child Protective Services and California Dept. of Social Services. Currently
lives in Sacramento, CA, where she works with children with special needs. Active
member of Grandmothers for Peace. Married name: Ellen Broms.
KOVNER, PAT W F 20 Sherman Oaks, CA Student, Univ. of California,
Berkeley
Founded a CORE chapter in Sherman Oaks, CA. Roommates at Univ. of California with
fellow Freedom Rider Jorgia Seigel. Active in SLATE, a student political party in Berkeley.
Participated in “Redwood Summer,” an Earth First!–sponsored demonstration in 1990
organized to halt the logging of California’s redwoods. Later served on the Green Party
Council in Mendocino County. Currently an environmental activist promoting
sustainability. Lives in rural Northern California on a self-sustaining farm.
LA BOSTRIE, RONALD B M 26 Los Angeles, CA Artist
Born and raised in New Orleans, LA, in a Catholic family. Close friend of Robert Farrell’s in
1961. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was an active member of Catholics
United for Racial Equality (CURE), an organization devoted to the liberalization of the Los
Angeles diocese. A painter and graphic artist who sometimes worked as a draftsman. Long
involvement with California counter-culture. Deceased.
MCNICHOLS, STEVEN W M 22 Los Angeles, CA Student, recent UCLA graduate
Born in NY City in 1939. Graduate of UCLA (B.A., 1961), Univ. of Texas (M.A., economics,
1977), and Hastings College of Law (J.D., 1983). Served as civil rights director for the
National Student Assoc. Worked for Los Angeles mayor’s office in community development
(mid-1970s), where he exposed corruption as a whistleblower. Later a San Francisco public
sector employment attorney. Currently writing The Last Freedom Ride: Life in the Tank, a
memoir of the California-to-Houston Ride.
MOODY, MARIAN B F 19 Houston, TX Membership chairman of the
Progressive Youth Assoc.