Oral history interview with Frankye Adams-Johnson, 2001

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Oral history interview with Frankye Adams-Johnson, 2001

2001

http://umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/record=b4063130~S1

In the summer of 1961, the Freedom Riders, a group of mostly young people, both black and white, including Frankye Adams-Johnson, risked their lives to challenge the system of segregation in interstate travel in the South. The University of Mississippi's Freedom riders oral history project includes interviews recorded in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of that summer.

Videorecording: 1 videodisc (34 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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University of Mississippi

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University of Mississippi

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University of Mississippi. William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation.

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University of Mississippi. Division of Outreach and Continuing Education.

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University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture

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Adams-Johnson, Frankye

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Frankye Adams-Johnson was born in Pocahontas, Mississippi to a sharecropper family. When she was seventeen years old, she became involved in the NAACP Youth Council after learning of civil rights protests occurring in nearby Jackson, Mississippi, which included lunch counter sit-ins. She participated in numerous civil rights events and marches, including a walk-out of her high school to support the sit-ins that she helped organize. In the summer of 1964, she was selected to attend the pre-freshm...