Eric J. Etheridge is an American journalist and photographer who was the initial editor, in 1995, of ''

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'', the magazine co-founded by

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Life

Etheridge is a native of Mississippi. Etheridge is a 1979 graduate of

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

. He documented victims of gun violence in the Bronx. In July 2006, ''

The New York Times Magazine ''The New York Times Magazine'' is an American Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times''. It features articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors. ...

'' published a selection of his then-and-now photos of individuals who had taken part in the

Freedom Rides Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions '' Morgan v. Virginia ...

of 1961. Etheridge had found mug shots of the arrested Riders in the files of the

Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (also called the Sov-Com) was a state agency in Mississippi from 1956 to 1977 tasked with fighting desegregation and controlling civil rights activism. It was overseen by the Governor of Mississippi. T ...

, and he photographed a number of the former Riders whom he was able to track down. In 2008, that material served as the basis for his book '' Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders''. His portrait of Freedom Rider Charles Sellers accompanied the latter's ''New York Times'' obituary.

Works

*''Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders'', Vanderbilt University Press, 2018.

References

External links

Freedom Rider photos from NYT magazine
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