Freedom Rider, student activist with SNCC and NAG, first white member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, and participant in Jackson sit-ins and boycotts in 1963. 2019.
Joan Mulholland discusses her family and educational background and why, as a white woman, she decided to join SNCC during her freshman year in college, her participation in the Freedom Rides and desegregation efforts in Jackson, MS after transferring to Tougaloo College, the March on Washington, the Kennedy Administration's attitude towards the civil rights movement and, finally, her impressions of Julian Bond.
Transcript: crmvet.org/nars/trumpauer_jboh.pdf
Project website: julianbondoralhistoryproject.org/joan-mulholland
