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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 8:07 am Post subject: 4 decades later, freedom rider returns to Miss.
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_freedom_rider_returns"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.423b49ab482544288f7cf913666196c4.freedom_rider_returns_jx603.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=CXnl52b1rUeenn9qyX7X8w--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Civil rights activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland discusses May 12, 2009 in Jackson, Miss., the events that surrounded her being photographed as she and other Tougaloo College students were being abused by white youth as they tried in 1963 to integrate a Woolworth Department Store lunch counter in Jackson, Miss. The photograph of her and other protestors being covered with condiments, and an earlier booking photograph taken after being arrested as a Freedom Rider have help influence a composition for wind ensemble written by Southern Mississippi music student Corey Carter. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)" border="0" /></a>AP - Corey Carter could hear snippets of music in his head — a calm and subtle melody that hadn't found its shape. The 19-year-old college student simply needed a hero to visualize before he could finish his composition for wind ensemble.</p><br clear="all"/>
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