Freedom Rider Playing Cards
date: label: Date made
content: 1961
label: associated date
content: 1961
name: label: user
content: Freedom Riders
label: Associated Name
content: Trumpauer, Joan
notes: label: Description
content: A hand-made deck of playing cards used by Freedom Riders in Parchman Penitentiary in Mississippi during the summer of 1961. The cards were made by cutting used envelopes into rectangles and writing the playing card that was represented on them with pencil. Some of the cards have the alternatating red and blue stripes of an airmail envelope around the edge. The deck is complete except for the 7 of diamonds. The ace of hearts bears the postmark of New York, NY, dated Aug. 7, 1961, and the name "Sally Rowley" can be pieced together using two cards. The donor, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was herself a Freedom Rider.
place: label: used in
content: United States: Mississippi
topic: label: general subject association
content: African Americans--Civil rights
label: general subject association
content: Civil Rights Movement
label: general subject association
content: social reform
label: general subject association
content: African American History
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Civil Rights Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joan Trumpauer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0035.01
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0035.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0035
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Deck of cards
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: white; grey; red; blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 1 1/4 in; 5.08 cm x 3.175 cm