Speakers Bureau: “Pushing Forward: Hezekiah Watkins and the Youth Movement of Mississippi”
Speakers Bureau: “Pushing Forward: Hezekiah Watkins and the Youth Movement of Mississippi”
In 1961, young Hezekiah Watkins was arrested at the Greyhound Bus Station in Jackson, Mississippi at the age of 13 where he was sent in a paddy wagon to Mississippi’s State Penitentiary, known as Parchman Penitentiary, and placed on Death Row. His crime? Allegedly participating with a group known as the Freedom Riders who had […]