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ILLUSTRATED JOURNALISM
I traveled the country to interview veterans of the civil rights struggle in 1961 as part of a larger project USA TODAY published on a pivotal year in the push for equality.
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Hezekiah Watkins of Jackson, Mississippi, has been a civil rights leader since he was a child. Mistaken for a Freedom Rider, the then-13-year-old was arrested and placed in a cell on death row with two condemned criminals. After a lifetime of leadership, Watkins, who by his own count has been arrested more than 100 times, now shares his story of hope as a guide at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
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