1. Brenda Travis was born on 1945 and is an African American veteran of the Civil Rights Movement from McComb, Mississippi, whose imprisonments for protesting a segregated bus station and participation in a peaceful high school walk out in 1961 helped catalyze public sentiment against segregation.
Brenda Travis is the fourth of her parents' seven children.
Brenda Travis's father refused and Mullen left to get a gun to kill her father.
Brenda Travis ran, got her mother, and fled to McComb where she was born shortly after.
Brenda Travis was compelled to civil rights activism by the injustice she watched unfold around her at a young age.
Brenda Travis volunteered to participate in a sit in the next day and go to jail along with Robert Talbert and Ike Lewis, who were students.
Brenda Travis attempted to re-enroll and was denied October 4,1961.
Students continued protesting by refusing to return to school until Brenda Travis was allowed to re-enroll.
Brenda Travis was denied a trial and sentenced to an indeterminate sentence.
Brenda Travis paid for her bus ticket and she spent the rest of the summer with him and his wife in Atlanta.
Brenda Travis moved to North Haven, Connecticut, to finish high school.