Feb 1, 2018
In July 1961, Robert Singleton, retired LMU professor of economics, and Helen Singleton M.A. ’85 left Los Angeles for New Orleans, where in defiance of state segregation laws, they boarded a train bound for Jackson, Mississippi. Veterans of the civil rights movement’s legendary Freedom Riders, the Singletons talk about the fight against segregation and their jail time in Mississippi’s Parchman State Penitentiary.