In memoriam

New Crisis, The, Sep/Oct 2000

Jimmy McDonald, 69, one of 14 original members of the Freedom Riders whose bus was bombed during a trip to the South to battle segregation laws in 1962, died July 11 in New York. As a member of the Yonkers Branch of the NAACP, he continued his advocacy of civil rights by attempting to increase minority turnout in elections. Dudley Randall, 86, a publisher and poet prominent in the 1960s and '70s, died Aug. 5 in Southfield, Mich., of congestive heart failure. Randall founded the Detroit-based Broadside Press, which published 90 titles of poetry from 1965, when it was founded, to 1977 and had 500,000 books in print. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young named Randall poet laureate in 1981.

Dr. Josephine Martin, 84, a psychiatrist who worked in Mississippi with malnourished children in a program that was a precursor to Head Start and who also counseled intimidated and humiliated civil rights workers, died July 6 in New York City. Dr. Martin was known as the unofficial doctor to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.