52 Strong: USU Civil Rights Pilgrimage
52 Strong: USU Civil Rights Pilgrimage
Utah Public Radio
52 Strong: Remembering The Freedom Riders Of Montgomery, Ala.
4 minutes Posted Mar 4, 2015 at 5:11 pm.
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The first installment of “52 Strong” comes to us from a Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, Ala. The series follows USU Professor Jason Gilmore and two of his students as they travel through the South as part of a civil rights pilgrimage. Montgomery, Ala. is contested space. On the one hand, it was considered the cradle of the Confederacy. On the other, the birthplace of the modern civil rights movement. It is the stories of courage and determination of the civil rights movement that drew us