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Hollis Watkins, who was jailed multiple times for challenging segregation in Mississippi, dies at 82

By Emily Wagster Pettus, The Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Hollis Watkins, who started challenging segregation and racial oppression in his native Mississippi when he was a teenager and toiled alongside civil rights icons including Medgar Evers and Bob Moses, has died. He was 82. Watkins — who also sometimes went by Hollis Watkins […]

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