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    Singing with our friend John

    Jul 24, 2020 2 minutes
    By Dorie Ladner and Joyce Ladner

    My sister and I met John Lewis in Jackson, Miss., when we were students at Tougaloo College. He was one of the Freedom Riders who returned to Mississippi to settle some matters related to Parchman Penitentiary, where they were all jailed in 1961 after being arrested while defying segregation. They came back to pay their bonds and settle their legal issues.

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