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Pleune, Katherine A., 1940-

Biography:

Katherine A. Pleune was employed as a mimeograph operator in Chicago, Illinois when she was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for her participation in a Freedom Ride from Nashville, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi on June 10, 1961. Pleune was also an active participant in the Fair Play for Cuba movement of 1960-1961.

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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 Peter Stoner, 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 Katherine A. Pleune following her arrest for her participation in the Freedom Rides, Jackson, Mississippi, 1961 June 10 (Black-and-white photographs)