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White Activist Reflects on Civil Rights Activism and Woolworths Sit‑in
Anne Moody recounts joining the Freedom Riders and Tougaloo College, describing her arrest for breach of peace at Parchman and the May 28 1963 Woolworths sit in where students faced brutal taunts. She recalls Medgar Evers’s nearby observance, national media coverage, and the Mob’s chaos while nonviolence held.
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Mississippi State Penitentiary
Parchman
Tougaloo College
Jackson
Woolworth’s
Mississippi Naacp
Medgar Evers
Trumpauer Mulholland
Anne Moody
Tougaloo
Pearlena Lewis
Memphis Norman
John Salter
NAACP
Fred Blackwell
Jackson Daily News
Associated Press
Salter
Moody
A.D. Biettel
Mississippi
Academy