Get on the bus with the Freedom Riders, April 13! Margaret Winonah Beamer-Myers Charles David Myers Born in Cleveland, Ohio on September 10, 1941, A resident of Noblesville, Indiana, as a Twenty- Margaret Winonah Beamer was a student at one-year old Central State College student, Central State College when she was arrested for William Carl Mahoney joined the Freedom her participation in the Freedom Rides. As part Ride from Nashville to Jackson, Mississippi in David and Winonah Myers, 2011 of the Freedom Ride, Beamer, along with four Montgomery, Alabama on May 28, 1961. Myers others, took a train from Nashville, Tennessee to worked as a photographer, editor, and reporter at Jackson, Mississippi where they were arrested in WHIO-TV in Dayton, Ohio from 1973 to 2002. the Illinois Central terminal on June 9, 1961. Bernard Lafayette, Jr., 2011 Kredelle Petway, 2007 Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr. Kredelle Petway Bernard LaFayette, Jr. has been a Civil Rights Movement activist, minister, Born in Camden, Alabama in 1941, Kredelle Petway was a student at educator, lecturer, and is an authority on the strategy on nonviolent social Florida A & M University in Tallahassee, Florida when she was arrested change. He co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for her participation in the Freedom Rides during the summer of 1961. (SNCC) in 1960. He was a leader of the Nashville Movement, 1960 and Petway, along with her father, brother and Cecil A. Thomas, participated on the Freedom Rides, 1961 and the 1965 Selma Movement. He directed in a Freedom Ride from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi the Alabama Voter Registration Project in 1962, and he was appointed where the group was arrested in the Jackson airport on July 24, 1961. National Program Administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and National Coordinator of the 1968 Poor Peoples’ Campaign by Martin Luther King, Jr. Raymond Arsenault Dr. Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History and Program Advisor of the Florida Studies Program at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, where he has taught since 1980. An active member of the Florida affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union since the early 1980s, he served two terms as state president (1998-2000) and received the Nelson Poynter Civil Liberties Award in 2003. Author of many award-winning books, including Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice on which the American Experience film is based. WEDU • 1300 North Boulevard • Tampa, Florida 33607 • 813-254-9338 wedu.org.