In 1965, when he was 18 years old, the son of a sharecropper found a way to make a difference in the Jim Crow South. John Reynolds joined the SCLC, worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Dr. Ralph Abernathy to register black voters in his native Pike County, AL and across the state. He eventually went to Rhode Island for the SCLC , helped organize and manage the anti-poverty event in DC in the aftermath of Dr. King's murder, then became a pastor, married and adopted daughters. In January 2023 he visited his hometown to dedicate the first Civil Rights Monument there, celebrating the Summer of SCORE and the successful voting rights drive. I was privileged to interview him in our station studios.
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