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Sally Rowley was a Freedom Rider. She was 29 in 1961 when she left her job as a secretary in NYC to take a bus from Nashville, TN to Jackson, MS where she was arrested in the Colored Waiting Room of the bus terminal. On May 14, she died of Covid-19 in a Tucson, AZ nursing home. https://twitter.com/_anikapasilis/status/1263610443626512384
New York Times obituary
Sally Rowley, Jewelry Maker and Freedom Rider, Dies at 88 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/obituaries/sally-rowley-dead-coronavirus.html
Sally Rowley, Jewelry Maker and Freedom Rider, Dies at 88 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/obituaries/sally-rowley-dead-coronavirus.html
Arizona Daily Star obituary for Sally Rowley by her granddaughter Anika Pasilis @_anikapasilis https://twitter.com/TucsonStar/status/1262005726261719041
On the Civil Rights Movement Archive website, Rick Sheviakov, another Freedom Rider wrote about his arrest with 9 others including Sally Rowley in Jackson, Mississippi on July 29, 1961.
https://www.crmvet.org/nars/sheviakov-fr.pdf
https://www.crmvet.org/nars/sheviakov-fr.pdf
Jet magazine had some of the most vital reporting on the Civil Rights Movement. Jet covered the July 19, 1961 arrests of and imprisonment of Sally Rowley and her fellow Freedom Riders in the Aug 17, 1961 issue. Here's a Google Books link. https://books.google.com/books?id=FbMDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&dq=1961&pg=PA14#v=onepage&q&f=false
As am homage to Sally Rowley, I'm re-posting images of pages 14-18 of the Jet magazine story in this thread. Because images are not readable, I've also converted them to text and created a mew screen-readable doc here. + [ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bjUQqkFxubWHXxuniBZBEuzyl3hdUwBgKSVcNQbra_M/edit?usp=sharing]
