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Interview: Elizabeth Slade Hirschfeld On working with Black women in the movement, Elizabeth Slade Hirschfeld remembers that during the freedom rides, "there wasn't the hostility then between Black and white women…It was too early. The freedom ride was the pure time. We really hadn't had to work together." When she got out of Parchman Prison in 1961, Hirschfeld stayed with Cordell Reagon's sister, Joy, and another Black woman who had been jailed with them. She recalls their closeness: We all had to sleep in the same bed. I was in the middle and we had our arms all wound up against each other…and for a second, I couldn't figure whose arms were whose. We talked about that and about the closeness for awhile. Later, the night before their arraignment, the three women went to church where people were singing "We Shall Overcome." When they sang the verse that included "Black and white together," everyone held up and linked their arms." Hirschfeld recalls it as "a very spiritual and joyous moment" in which she thought, "at this second, I'm part of history."
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