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Meryle Joy Reagon
1942–
United States
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Biography
Meryle Joy Reagon is an American civil rights movement activist born in 1942. In June 1961, she participated in a Freedom Ride from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi. She is also the former wife of another Freedom Rider, Frederick Leonard and sister of Freedom Rider, Cordell Reagon.
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