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He was the youngest Freedom Rider, now he’s sharing his story at a Mississippi museum
Hezekiah Watkins— the youngest Freedom Rider—is still here to share his harrowing journey from a death row cell to the history books.
Every great once in a while, something like Stanley Nelson’s wonderful documentary Freedom Riders appears and is so good that it exhausts all common versions of praise. In it, Nelson and his crew take ...
Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans ...
Hezekiah Watkins, the youngest Freedom Rider, spent five days in a cell on Mississippi's death row. Now, the city of Jackson ...
After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause. Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. FREEDOM RIDERS: The Civil Rights Musical is coming to City College Center ...
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