Today I got to meet Joanne Blackmon Band. She participated in Bloody Sunday and Turn around Tuesday. She was only 11 years old. Being that young, she watched people be beaten and trampled by people and horses. She can still hear the screams and the smell of tear gasses. She fainted after watching a lady being beaten. She woke up in the back of a car in her sisters lap. She thought she was crying but realized it was blood from her sisters head. The next protest, Turn around Tuesday she participated but she was terrified. "I ain't want freedom no more" she said but she still marched. She was mid way in the line.
Ny'zha Taylor
City Neighbors High School
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