August 4, 2021
Freedom Rider Frederick Douglas Moore Clark Sr. ended up at Parchman Prison, where he spent over 40 days in 1961. Photo courtesy Kayode Crown
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60th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides: The ‘Accidental Freedom Rider’ Locked up in Parchman at 13
Hezekiah Watkins was looking for a hero. As a 13-year-old middle schooler in 1961 in Jackson who had lost his father three years earlier, he thought that seeing and possibly ...
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