After the Freedom Riders arrived in Jackson, Mississippi in May 1961, they were arrested for refusing to conform to segregation at the train station. They refused to pay the fine, and were subsequently sentenced to 60 days in jail. However, the growing number of arrested Freedom Riders caused them to be transferred to the infamous Mississippi State Penitentiary, or “Parchman Farm.” I chose to analyze page 101 of March, which takes place during this transfer. The page is composed mostly of larger horizontal panels. In the first panel, the Freedom Riders are being dragged out of the van and through the gates of the penitentiary. One of the of the Freedom Riders still in the van protests; the speech balloon says “we refuse to cooperate because we’ve been unjustly accused!” The words “refuse” and “accused” are in all-caps, expressing the Freedom Rider’s indignation of the treatment he is receiving, as well as his defiance. The Freedom Rider’s next speech balloon is overlapped by one of the officers’, emphasizing the interruption. The officer’s speech balloons read “Hey! In the van — what you actin’ like that for?!” In contrast to the Freedom Rider’s speech balloon, the officer’s speech is in all-caps, and less grammatically correct. For me, this highlighted the intellectual divide between Freedom Riders and their white opposition; Freedom Riders were often educated individuals. The next two panels provide another interesting contrast: in one, ducks swim away on a pond, and in the other, a Freedom Rider is dragged away by police. Both panels employ simple backgrounds, the second with a white background and the third with a black background. This contrast implies a “yin and yang” type of relationship. In the second panel, the ducks swim out of the right side of the panel, creating ripples as they go, while the Freedom Rider is dragged off to the right side of the third panel, creating drag marks as he goes, mirroring the duck’s ripples. The ducks are free, though they are wild animals, while the Freedom Riders are without freedom, both physically and socially. This contrast is highlighted again in the final panel, which shows a wide view of the jail, with a flock of birds flying overhead. The last panel also contains the officer’s last speech bubble, in which he says: “Ain’t no newspapermen out here.” This sentiment reminded me how important the media was to the civil rights movement, and how present it had been throughout the rest of the book. How powerful is protest if no one is around to witness it?