Peck, James
Biography:
"James Peck helped to organize and represent the National Maritime Union, worked with the War Resisters League in protest of World War II, and joined the Congress of Racial Equality when the war ended. In 1947 he participated in the first freedom ride with Bayard Rustin, and years later he participated in Freedom Rides organized by CORE in 1961. He went on to help lead and organize CORE activities for seventeen years."--Eyes on the Prize Interviews, Washington University in Saint Louis.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Alabama Media Group Collection (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Fred Shuttlesworth with Freedom Riders in front of a bus at the Greyhound station in Birmingham, Alabama. (Negatives (photographs))
- Freedom Rider James Peck at the Greyhound station in Birmingham, Alabama. (Negatives (photographs))
- Freedom Rider James Peck boarding an Eastern Air Lines flight to New Orleans at the airport in Birmingham, Alabama. (Negatives (photographs))
- Freedom Rider James Peck leaving the airport in Birmingham, Alabama, to board a flight for New Orleans. (Negatives (photographs))
- Freedom Rider James Peck leaving the airport in Birmingham, Alabama, to board a flight for New Orleans. (Negatives (photographs))
- Freedom Rider James Peck seated in the waiting area of the airport in Birmingham, Alabama, waiting to board a flight for New Orleans. (Negatives (photographs))
- Freedom Rider James Peck with another man at a souvenir counter at the airport in Birmingham, Alabama, waiting to board a flight for New Orleans. (Negatives (photographs))
- Freedom Rider James Peck with another man in the waiting area of the airport in Birmingham, Alabama, waiting to board a flight for New Orleans. (Negatives (photographs))
- James Peck and other Freedom Riders at the Greyhound station in Birmingham, Alabama. (Negatives (photographs))
- Young woman, possibly a Freedom Rider, reading the an issue of the Birmingham News in the waiting area of the Greyhound station in Birmingham, Alabama. (Negatives (photographs))
- Eyes on the Prize Interviews (Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries)
- Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001 (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
- Freedom summer digital collection (Wisconsin Historical Society)