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demmiblue

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Wed Dec 13, 2017, 01:56 PM Dec 2017

This is Patricia Gaines, whose father, a liberal minister, was driven out of Selma in 1961 by Klan.. [View all]



Molly Ball? Verified account @mollyesque

This is Patricia Gaines, whose father, a liberal minister, was driven out of Selma in 1961 by Klansmen on horseback. She went back to Selma for the first time today to drive black voters to the polls.



12:05 AM - 13 Dec 2017




Molly Ball? Verified account @mollyesque

They were angry at her dad for offering communion to blacks. The whole family fled in the middle of the night. With her father out of work, she entered beauty pageants to put herself through college.

12:18 AM - 13 Dec 2017

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