Eric Etheridge

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Eric J. Etheridge is a journalist and photographer who was the initial editor, in 1995, of George, the magazine co-founded by John F. Kennedy, Jr..

Etheridge is a native of Mississippi. In July 2006, The New York Times Magazine published a selection of his then-and-now photos of individuals who had taken part in the Freedom Rides of 1961. Etheridge had found mug shots of the arrested Riders in the files of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, and he photographed a number of the former Riders whom he was able to track down.

Etheridge is a 1979 graduate of Vanderbilt University.

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• Freedom Rider photos from NYT magazine
• Freedom Rider photos

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NAME	Etheridge, Eric
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	Journalist
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PLACE OF BIRTH	Mississippi
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