Former Freedom Rider addresses Yalies
On Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. Reginald Green stood in the Dwight Hall library, gesturing at a book.
“Here is my arrest,” he said, pointing at his June 7, 1961, mug shot. “And here is the picture of my wife getting the autograph of Martin Luther King Jr.”
Green spent the afternoon chatting with a group of 15 Yale students in the Dwight Hall Library about his experiences as a Freedom Rider in 1961. Though Green is in New Haven primarily for a special panel program at the New Haven Free Public Library on Wednesday about the 1961 Freedom Riders in Mississippi, he took a detour...
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