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Hezekiah Watkins talks to students about his experience as the youngest Freedom Rider during the 1960s (Dionte Berry/The News).

Freedom Rider shares experience with students

Drayton Charlton-Perrin, Contributing Writer April 27, 2023

The youngest Freedom Rider in U.S. history spoke about his journey from death row at 13 years old to civil rights activist at the Wrather West Kentucky...

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King to speak on civil rights progress

February 4, 2016

Story by Bailey Bohannan, Staff writer This year’s speaker at the Presidential Lecture will be Martin Luther King III, son of civil rights activist...

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