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Jun 2, 2011 · Born in Silver Creek, Mississippi, Thomas Armstrong was 14 in 1955—the same year another African-American 14-year-old, Emmett Till, was kidnapped, tortured, and killed in Mississippi for...
May 2, 2011 · Thomas M. Armstrong’s book Autobiography of a Freedom Rider: My Life as a Foot Soldier for Civil Rights is a moving account of the author’s journey from a young man growing up in 1950’s southern Mississippi to his awakening during the civil rights movement and the trauma he experienced later in life as a result.
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. [3]
May 22, 2021 · Autobiography of a freedom rider : my life as a foot soldier for civil rights by Armstrong, Thomas M., 1941-
Feb 15, 2010 · Thomas Armstrong III, 68, is a retired transportation contracts manager for the U.S. Postal Service. A 21-year resident of Naperville, Armstrong, who’s black, was arrested on June 23, 1961, when...
Aug 30, 2019 · Naperville resident Thomas Armstrong shared his experiences as a Freedom Rider as part of the Civil Rights Movement during a program last week at the Messenger Public Library in North...
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Mar 10, 2022 · In partnership with Building Love Amongst Cultures (BLAC), learn about the life of Freedom Rider Thomas Armstrong III. Thomas Madison Armstrong III is a veteran of the early 1960s civil rights movement in his native Mississippi, the very heart of white resistance in the South.
