Ellen Lee Ziskind

Overview

Ellen Lee Ziskind born Lowell, MA September 5, 1939. Freedom Rider arrested Jackson MS 1961; became Boston psychiatric social worker.

Quotations

"[T]hey didn’t really have anything interesting to say; they just got on a bus because they believed in equality.  It wasn’t something that they mulled over." (Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary, May 29, 2011; photo Miss. Archives)