Hollis Watkins, who was jailed multiple times for challenging segregation in Mississippi, dies at 82
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FILE - Hollis Watkins, national chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary conference, speaks at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Watkins was a longtime civil rights activist who was 82 when he died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, at his home in Clinton, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)FILE - Longtime civil rights activists Robert "Bob" Moses, left, and Hollis Watkins speak at Tougaloo College, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013, in Jackson, Miss. Watkins died at age 82 on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, at his home in Clinton, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)FILE - Hollis Watkins, left, chairman of the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, and Cynthia Goodloe Palmer, right, executive director of the group, sing "This Little Light of Mine" during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. Watkins was 82 when he died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, at his home in Clinton, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)FILE - Hollis Watkins sings in memory of Medgar Evers during a wreath-laying ceremony Thursday, May 16, 2013, at the Jackson, Miss., home of Evers, the Mississippi NAACP leader who was assassinated in 1963. Longtime Mississippi civil rights activist Watkins died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, at age 82 at his home in Clinton, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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FILE - Hollis Watkins, national chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary conference, speaks at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Watkins was a longtime civil rights activist who was 82 when he died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, at his home in Clinton, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)