JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – They were beaten, arrested, and called traitors, but they refused to back down from the fight for civil rights.
Rims Barber and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland didn’t just watch history unfold in the 1960s — they risked everything to change it. The two white allies stood alongside African Americans fighting segregation in Mississippi when schools, restaurants, and stores were divided by race.
African Americans and whites couldn’t eat, shop, or even interact with one another in the segregated South. They weren’t allowed to…