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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was a civil rights advocate who at 19 years old had already participated in more than three dozen sit-in protests. But she says the role of her generation today is to have the backs of the demonstrators out there now. She ask the younger folks in the audience “What are you going to do?”

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Arlington Freedom Rider Remembers the Struggle

“If you’re going to die, make it worthwhile.”

Joan Mulholland says she was born in the South but she began to recognize in the 1950s about the divide between the races and wonder how she could change things.

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