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Humbles, Julia Aaron

Biography:

Julia Aaron Humbles was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi on May 24, 1961. Known at the time as Julia Aaron, she was a twenty-year-old student at Southern University in New Orleans.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Julia Aaron following her arrest for her participation in the Freedom Rides, Jackson, Mississippi, 1961 May 24 (Black-and-white photographs)
• WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
  • WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a Trailways bus driving through downtown and then parking at a bus station and police arresting two African American female Freedom Riders in Jackson, Mississippi, 1961 May 24 (news)
  • WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a Trailways bus driving through downtown and then parking at a bus station and police arresting two African American female Freedom Riders in Jackson, Mississippi, 1961 May 24 (Moving images)