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Petway, Alphonso Kelly, 1945-

Biography:

Born in 1945, Alphonso Kelly Petway was a student at Washington High School in Pensacola, Florida when he was arrested for his participation in the Freedom Rides during the summer of 1961. Petway, along with his father, sister and Cecil A. Thomas, participated in a Freedom Ride from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi where the group was arrested in the Jackson airport on July 24, 1961.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001 (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
  • Oral history interview with Krendell Petway Dendy and Reverend Alfonso K. Petway, 2001 (Oral histories)
• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Alphonso Kelly Petway following his arrest for his participation in the Freedom Rides, Jackson, Mississippi, 1961 July 24 (Black-and-white photographs)