
In 1962, segregationists set up "Reverse Freedom Rides"
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The Reverse Freedom Riders
In many ways, it was these children and their families that really began to change the public opinion. Betty williams ws 18 and actually eight months pregnant when she became a reverse freedom rider. Now she's 75 and has spent her life cleaning houses and working in the women's lock room at the harvard club. She says she thinks back to that summer when segregationists in arkansas sent her family north.
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