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Arrested 13 times by age 11 – How Joanne Bland made history fighting for civil rights as a child
By the time Joanne Bland was 11 years old, she had been arrested “at least 13 documented times,” she once wrote. In Selma, where she grew up, she became involved in the Civil Rights Movement as a child foot soldier in the 1960s, participating in the historic Selma voting rights marches, including the infamous Bloody…
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Arrested 13 times by age 11 – How Joanne Bland made history fighting for civil rights as a child
By the time Joanne Bland was 11 years old, she had been arrested “at least 13 documented times,” she once wrote. In Selma, where she grew up, she became involved in the Civil Rights Movement as a child foot soldier in the 1960s, participating in the historic Selma voting rights marches, including the infamous Bloody…
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