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Leonard, Frederick

Biography:

Frederick Leonard was a student at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee when he was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for his participation in a May 17 through May 21 Freedom Ride. Leonard was arrested a second time in Jackson, Mississippi on May 28, 1961 after he rode a Greyhound bus from Nashville, via Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Oral History Collections (Butler Center for Arkansas Studies)
  • Frankie Whyte interview audio clip 03 (Oral histories (document genres))
• Eyes on the Prize Interviews (Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries)
• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Frederick Leonard following his arrest for his participation in the Freedom Rides, Jackson, Mississippi, 1961 May 28 (Black-and-white photographs)