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'''The Martha's Vineyard migrant flight has echoes of a dark past: Reverse Freedom Rides''' | '''The Martha's Vineyard migrant flight has echoes of a dark past: Reverse Freedom Rides''' | ||
[[File:FormatConvert_20221026_082632_2445.jpg|center|thumb|[https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786790638/the-reverse-freedom-rides Updated September 20, 20224:52 PM ET | [[File:FormatConvert_20221026_082632_2445.jpg|center|thumb|[https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786790638/the-reverse-freedom-rides Updated September 20, 20224:52 PM ET GABRIELLE EMANUEL]]] | ||
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In the summer of 1962, after three days on a Greyhound bus, Lela Mae Williams was just an hour from her destination—Hyannis, Mass. She went to the front of the bus and asked the bus driver to pull over. She needed to change into her finest clothes. She had been promised the Kennedy family would be waiting for her. | In the summer of 1962, after three days on a Greyhound bus, Lela Mae Williams was just an hour from her destination—Hyannis, Mass. She went to the front of the bus and asked the bus driver to pull over. She needed to change into her finest clothes. She had been promised the Kennedy family would be waiting for her. | ||
