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Posted by Kay
on November 7, 2008, 9:14 pm
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Dear Oprah,
I was a Freedom Rider in 1961 and after my release from jail returned to Nashville to help train/prepare other people in non-violence for upcoming rides. I think altogether there ended up being more than 300 riders during that summer.
The later riders ended up in Parchman Prison in Mississippi instead of the Hinds County Jail in Jackson where the early riders were incarcerated.
I was thinking that a show in 2011 reuniting the riders (50 years later) would be an interesting and informative show. I do not know if I will make it as I have had several heart attacks the last few years. I feel incrediably blessed to see Barack Obama elected our next president!
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