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Daily Kos: thoughts after watching Freedom Riders

Daily Kos: thoughts after watching Freedom Riders

thoughts after watching Freedom Riders

I turned 15 in the middle of the Freedom Rides. Fifty years ago.

I have just finished watching the documentary on PBS.

Images that burned into my memory and my soul.

Jim Zweig in his hospital bed, expressing his willingness to die for a righteous cause. But not to strike back in violence or anger.

Listening to John Siegenthaler, a representative of the US Government, himself beaten unconscious.

The quiet courage of Diane Nash - telling Siegenthaler that they had written their last wills and testaments the