{"id":72981,"date":"2014-01-27T10:51:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T15:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=72981"},"modified":"2014-01-27T10:51:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T15:51:18","slug":"freedom-rider-to-share-story-and-documentary-at-umw-feb-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2014\/01\/27\/freedom-rider-to-share-story-and-documentary-at-umw-feb-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Rider to Share Story and Documentary at UMW, Feb. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 50 years ago, a 19-year-old college student named Joan Trumpauer Mulholland bought a flight to Mississippi and joined the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. It was 1961, the year that dozens of sit-ins occurred in diners and drugstores and the same year that the Freedom Rides challenged segregated interstate bus travel in the Deep South. Mulholland, a white teenager raised in the South, was arrested and sent to prison for two months for her involvement in the protests.<\/p>\n

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Joan Mulholland, shown during a trip to UMW in 2011, will be a part of UMW’s Black History Month celebration on Feb. 3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mulholland will share her story at the University of Mary Washington on Monday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. in Lee Hall, Room 411 as part of the Black History Month celebration. The evening will begin with a showing of the new documentary, \u201cAn Ordinary Hero<\/a>,\u201d which chronicles her unlikely journey. After the documentary, Mulholland and the film\u2019s director will lead a discussion and answer questions.<\/p>\n

Mulholland was among the former Freedom Riders who joined UMW as it commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides in 2011 with a three-month celebration<\/a>. The centerpiece of the celebration was a 1960s-era bus and exhibit<\/a> of historical photos on Ball Circle.<\/p>\n

UMW\u2019s Black History Month celebration also will feature the following events:<\/p>\n