Most Americans know something of the Civil Rights Movement: the speeches of Martin Luther King, the Freedom Rides of the 1960s and the March on Washington. But there were earlier actions that also profoundly changed our country’s history. One of great significance to the Civil Rights Movement but nearly lost to that history was the Journey of Reconciliation. This is the story of that ride.

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