August 4, 2021
Hezekiah Watkins’ mugshot Photo courtesy Kayode Crown
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Civil Rights
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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