In 1963, a group of civil rights activists undertook to walk from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. They were going to hand-deliver a letter to the Governor of Mississippi urging that the state integrate its races instead of resisting the rising tide of civil rights. They never made it. The lead Freedom Walker was shot dead in Alabama and the shooter was never charged with a crime. Some of the others were arrested at the Alabama-Mississippi border and while imprisoned, fed muffins in which shards of broken glass had been baked. Only two "Freedom Walkers" survive today.
Well, a group of Alabama atheists have picked up where the civil rights activists left off. They are completing the walk, will meet up with the two survivors, and together deliver the letter, at long last, to the Governor, who is expecting them and will likely give them a warmer greeting than the original walkers would have received.
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