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Civil-rights veteran Jimmie Travis died Tuesday, July 28.

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Jimmie Travis

During the violent, bloody days of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, Freedom Rider Jimmie Travis nearly lost his life. In February 1963, Travis, then 20, was driving a car …

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