Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle

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Alt photograph* courte^ of Dr. Gilbert R. Mawn. unle66 otherwi&e noted. Calvin Augudtu* JaekAon I maternal great-grandfather Calvin Auguatu*Jack&on II maternal grandfather of Dr.Mcwon, holding GilbertJr., ea 1955 Mary William* Jack&on Cvaru, "Sto,"maternal grandmother ot Dr. Mourn, holding GilbertJr., ca 1955. Su owned a farm near fioiton urhere Dr.Maton jpent many happy day& a& a boy. £Jtie Trotter Mcwon, "Little Mama," paternal grandmother oj Dr.MaAon, ca 1940. Dr. Mcuon *pent Atimmer* with Little Mama in Chicago to work and earn extra money during hi6 college yean at Tenneaaee State. Waiter Harrison Afaaon, paternal grandfather ot Dr. Madon, ca 1930. Waiter wa& a barber and a Bapttot minister. Dr. MaAon'A parent*, Willie Atwood and Aieanjack&on Mason with Gilbert Jr., 1955 Gilbert ft. Moaon with Natalie Hamlar in Washington, D.C.ju&t before their wedding in 1950 andjuAt before Mcuon began ttudy at Howard Univer&ity School o> Medicine The 25 April 1960 headline on the bloody wade-In. Reprinted by permiAAion oj The Sun Herald. Dr. Felix Dunn (lett)wlthjournalUt Alex Poln&ettot Jet magazine in a Biloxi service Atation at the corner oj Division and Nixon Streets after the 24 April 1960 wade-In A letter from Medgar W. Cvert to Dr. Mown, 18October 1960, Mowing CVCTA'A uriiiingne** to "rUk even lite it*ei|" in the wake oj the 1960 wade-in and BUoxi Achool dedejregation initiative €ver*, NAACP Jieid decretaiy >or MiMiMippl in a BUoxi service station at the corner oj Division and Nixon Street* after the 1960 wade-in and riot A letter (from £i?era to Robert I. Carter, if October 1960, regarding the start oj school desegregation (egai maneuvering in fiiioxi, endowed in Cver^'A tetter to Dr. Mason ReporterJame* Hick* ot The Amsterdam News (Newyork) landing ouMde Dr. Mcuon'A apartment in BUoxi after the 1960 wade-in Bloodstained victims, Mr. Cllti Brown (left) and Mr. Dorothy Galloway (right), ouUlde Dr. Madon'6 Biloxi oftice ajter the 1960 trade-in. Beaten with chain* and pipe*, Brown received a wound above hU left ear, and Galloway muttered fractured knee cap* in the violence that day. Photograph courtesy oj Mr. LeoRuA&eli MoAAive tragicjam on U.S. go in Biloxi during the 1963 wade-in. The van in the background U>OA uAed tor arreAtA. Photo courteAy ot Mr. Leo RuAAeil. The headiine from the 24 June 1963 wade-in. Reprinted^ with permiAAion by The Sun Herald Dr. Maaon (middie row, second trom the left ) with, Gulf Coa&t Boy ScoutA at Phiimont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico, 1962 Jfefmeted police ofticerA escort the tint in a line of seventy-one arrested demon*tratorA oft Biioxi beach, foiiowins the 1963 wade-in. Photo eourtew oj Mr. Leo ftttueii. The white erotrd overturna the ear of a black protester at the 1963 u;ade-in. Photo courtesy ot Mr. Leo Ruueli The crowded beach scene at the 1963 wade-in. Photo courtesy oj Mr. Leo Russell. A police ottlcer extinguishes a tire in Dr.Mason's 1959 Buicfc during the 1963 wade-in. Photo courtesy of Mr. Leo Russell. The painted moving von tided to remove the demonstrator* from Biloxi beach in the 1963 wade-in. Dr.Mason vlgcrou &ty protested crowded conditions in the hot ifnventiiated van when the protesters arrived at the police station. Photo courtesy of Mr.Leo ftusseii. Dr. Mason pushes open the van doors to allow the protesters to disembark. The black flags were carried as a memorial to Medgar£vers whohad helped plan the demonstration and who had been assassinated the previous week. Photo courtesy o|Mr. Leo Russell. Protesters are unloaded from the van at the BUoxi police station in the aftermath oj the '963 wade-in. Mr. Charlie Avery (tar left) and Reverends Roger Gallagher and John Aregood 0}the Back Bay Mission are in the center foreground. Dr. Mason (left) with, Roy Wiifcins, executive secretary ot the national NMCP at the COFO voter registration raiiy at Neu; Bethel Baptist Church in BUoxi during the summer ot1964 Dr. Afojon on the *outh laum of the White House in November1964 at the end of an invitational White Hotue Conference, listening to...