Joan trumpauer mulholland biography samples
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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
Mulholland’s booking photo for “breach of peace.” Image courtesy of Archives and Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
As part of South Brunswick Reads for Change, we are proud to announce that Freedom Rider and Civil Rights Activist, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland will speak to our school via Zoom on Monday, May 23rd during 2nd Block in an assembly titled Change Maker: A Conversation with Civil Rights Activist, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland.
Who is Joan Trumpauer Mulholland?
As stated by the JTM Foundation:
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, a recipient of the 2015 National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award, is a Civil Rights Icon who participated in over 50 sit-ins and demonstrations by the time she was 23 years old. She was a Freedom Rider, a participant in the Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-in, the March on Washington, the Meredith March and the Selma to Montgomery March. For her actions she was disowned by her family, attacked, shot at, cursed at, put on death row and hunted down by the Klan for execution. Her path has crossed with some of the biggest names in the Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, John Lewis, Diane Nash and Julian Bond. She has appeared in numerous b
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Against the will of her family and the wishes of those in power, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland gives us a beautiful example of personal courage, commitment and drive to raise awareness about generations of social injustice. As a privileged white teenager, her future looked safe and sound, but it was her choices that landed her face to face with the KKK and violent mobs. She spent months in prison during the Freedom Rides and stood shoulder to shoulder with the great moral heroes of the civil rights movement.
Raised in the American South, Joan was well aware of racial bigotry and segregation. She describes her mother as a “stereotypical Georgia redneck” who held strongly to the beliefs of white racial superiority. Her privileged father came from Iowa and held less demeaning views, but neither of her parents would be prepared for what would take place between 1960 and 1964.
Exposed to the conflicting values of segregation and the moral virtues written in the Bible, by her youth pastor, her life changed when a group of African American youths was invited to speak about their justification and efforts to end segregation. Joan not only realized the truth about social injustice but that she as a white southern girl had inherent power to bring awareness to the inequalities.
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About Joan
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