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In 1962, segregationists set up "Reverse Freedom Rides"

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The Reverse Freedom Rods - A Great Migration Story

60 years ago a black woman named lila may williams and nine of her children climb aboard a greyhound bus at the brick bus station in little rock, arkansas. The first question that most of the arrivals asked was, where is president kennedy? We were told that he was going to meet us at the bus. But mararet mostly did. What mostly knew and the arrivals didn't, was that there would be no presidential welcome, no jobs, no permanent housing as lilumay had been promised. Mosely knew that this whole trip was all a big races hoax.

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