This all started with a scratchy phone message from a guy named Bobby Duley. He had been making regular visits to his mother convalescing at a rehab facility in Old Saybrook. Down the hall in one of the public rooms, he discovered a woman who was intimately involved in the civil rights marches that began in 1966 in the south.
She was exposed to few people of color in rural Old Lyme, Connecticut, but was raised in a family that supported equal rights for all. So she signed up with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and marched through Mississippi, when racial strife in America hit a fevered pitch. She briefly worked for Coretta Scott King and she kept treasured photos of herself with the King family.
Today, older and less mobile but still razor sharp in mind and spirit, Prudence remains adamant in her belief in non-violence.
GUEST:
- Prudence Allen - Activist and friend to the family of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Chion Wolf contributed to this show. Special thanks to Prudence Allen and Bobby Duley.
