Las Vegas Bus Arrives in Knoxville

Knoxville - Four hundred people greeted the Las Vegas route buses at Sacred Heart Cathedral - heard history of freedom rides, local civil rights history, local Palestinian and Mexican immigrants, local bakery workers locked out of their jobs, and a challenge from the chair of the TN Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition...2 bus riders spoke and were received enthusiastically...the torch from the bus was passed to great effect for the local press: 3 TV stations and the local paper and radio.

Then everyone adjourned for dinner, music and dancing in the gym. Great night. They are at historic labor and civil rights training school, Highlander Center, this morning.

-Jim Sessions

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