12. Did you see the film about the Freedom riders?
Fifty years ago groups of young Black and White freedom riders boarded buses and travelled through the deep south where they faced violence and hatred. If you look at just who comprised this vanguard, which was at the heart of the Civil Rights movement, you will discover that almost to a person they were motivated by their religious faith. ML King was not the only Christian involved. Pull religious inspired young adults out of the Civil Rights movement and you would gut it. They won. The bigots, religious and non-religious lost.
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