In partnership with Building Love Amongst Cultures (BLAC), learn about the life of Freedom Rider Thomas Armstrong III.

Thomas Madison Armstrong III is a veteran of the early 1960s civil rights movement in his native Mississippi, the very heart of white resistance in the South. As a student at historically black Tougaloo College from 1959-1963, he joined a small group of colleagues and faculty members who launched early protests for voting rights and equal public accommodations. These were demonstrations led by NAACP leaders, such as the late Medgar Evers, and peopled by ordinary men and women of the South, both black and white..

He has conducted intergenerational discussions about the personal power of civic education, and has worked to further the nation's democratic ideals at such places as the Freedom Riders Teen Town hall Webcast at the National Underground Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH, sponsored by the National Museum of American History, and the African American Leadership Roundtable in Chicago, Illinois.

He has co-authored, with Nashville, Tennessee based journalist, Natalie Bell, a memoir about his life-altering, freedom-fighting experience. The book, titled Autobiography Of A Freedom Rider, is part memoir and historical narrative. It underscores the importance of historical narratives of black Southerners who led and participated in the movement.

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