Carter, Clyde L. (Clyde Larocque)
Biography:
Clyde Carter was a classmate of Charles Jones at Johnson Smith College in Charlotte, North Carolina. In May 1961 the two decided to join the Freedom Rides after the first buses passed through Charlotte and were ambushed in Anniston, Alabama. Carter and Jones joined with a group of chaplains and professors from Yale and Wesleyan University in Connecticut. The group left Atlanta May 24, 1961 and made it safely to Montgomery, Alabama that day, although a group of 200 National Guardsmen met them at the bus station with bayonets drawn to hold back the crowd. The group returned to the bus station the next day but were arrested for integrating the lunch counter at the station before they could travel to Mississippi.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement (Smoking Gun)
- Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of John Maguire, Charles Jones, Dave [sic] Smith, William Coffin and Gaylord Noyce (left to right) sitting around a table during a meeting at an unknown location, 1960s (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of John Maguire, Charles Jones, Dave [sic] Smith, William Coffin and Gaylord Noyce sitting at a table during a meeting at an unknown location, 1960s (Black-and-white photographs)
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Alabama National Guardsmen protecting an interracial group of Freedom Riders as they arrive at the Greyhound bus terminal in Montgomery, Alabama, 1961 May 24 (moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Alabama National Guardsmen protecting an interracial group of Freedom Riders as they arrive at the Greyhound bus terminal in Montgomery, Alabama, 1961 May 24 (news)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of an interracial group of Freedom Riders holding a press conference before leaving Atlanta, Georgia, 1961 May 24 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of an interracial group of Freedom Riders holding a press conference before leaving Atlanta, Georgia, 1961 May 24 (news)