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• Smithy Reynolds was Mount Airy's Rosa Parks

  Article dated August 4, 2002 about Smithy Reynolds.
  

• Photograph of Paul Porter Reynolds and Ernestine Herring Reynolds

  Paul Porter Reynolds and Ernestine Herring Reynolds, taken about 1960 in Mount Airy, NC.
  

• Photograph of Ernestine Herring Reynolds with Grandchildren

  Ernestine Herring Reynolds with Grandchildren, Left to Right: Regina Hubert Terrenzio, Portia Hubert, April Hubert Prioleau. Taken in 2003 in Dobson, NC.
  

• Negro Woman Fined $25 and Cost Here Mon.

  Newspaper article on the court hearing for Smithy Reynolds for refusing to take a seat at the back of a Mount Airy bus.
  

• Negro Woman Fails to Observe Jim Crow Law Here

  Newspaper article on the arrest of Smithy Reynolds for refusing to take a seat at the back of a Mount Airy bus.
  

• Photograph of Mable Smithy France Reynolds

  Photograph of Mable Smithy France Reynolds taken about 1955 when she was 63 years old. Ms. Reynolds lived in Mount Airy and, in 1948, refused to sit in the back of a bus. She was arrested and fined.
  

• Photograph of Michael and Sonya Reynolds Dodd

  Photograph of Michael and Sonya Reynolds Dodd, taken in Dobson at Herrera's Vineyard in winter 2016-2017
  

• Photograph of the Bowman Family

  Photograph of the Bowman Family, taken in Mount Airy about 1940. Left to Right: Charlie Bowman, Margaret Bowman (Berry), Alvis Lee Bowman (Dodd), Willie P. Bowman-father, Vinnie (Kimble) Bowman-mother, Willie Mae Bowman, Aaron Bowman, Gertrude Bowman (McCloud)
  

• Photograph of Monroe Dodd

  Photograph of Monroe Dodd, taken in Belgium in 1944 when he was in the US Army.