Singing with our friend John
Jul 24, 2020
2 minutes
By Dorie Ladner and Joyce Ladner
—As told, in two conversations, to Olivia B. Waxman
My sister and I met John Lewis in Jackson, Miss., when we were students at Tougaloo College. He was one of the Freedom Riders who returned to Mississippi to settle some matters related to Parchman Penitentiary, where they were all jailed in 1961 after being arrested while defying segregation. They came back
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