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Opinion: As a 12-year-old, I defied the KKK to comfort Freedom Riders injured in a firebombing
Posted May 09, 2021
Janie Forsyth McKinney; Los Angeles Times (TNS)
In early 1961, I considered myself an unremarkable, shy seventh-grader except for the fact I made straight A’s, wore thick prescription glasses and had recently won the Alabama state spelling bee on the word “cloisonné.”
But after the Freedom Riders arrived in my small hometown of Anniston, Ala., I became famous or infamous as the 12-year-old white girl who defied the Ku Klux Klan to tend civil rights activists injured in a vicious attack on their Greyhound bus. My life would never be the same, and some people would come to hail me as a hero. I never saw myself that way. ....

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