In 1961, Watkins became one of the first Mississippi residents to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Hollis Watkins, who started challenging segregation and racial oppression in his native Mississippi when he was a teenager and toiled alongside civil rights icons including !
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