Jackson issues formal apology to civil rights icon Hezekiah Watkins

Jackson mayor delivers apology to Civil Rights icon Hezekiah Watkins

Jackson mayor delivers apology to Civil Rights icon Hezekiah Watkins JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Jackson Mayor John Horhn delivered a formal public apology on behalf of the City of Jackson to civil rights icon Hezekiah Watkins on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It took place at the prayer breakfast celebration at Greater Bethlehem Temple Church on Monday. The apology acknowledged the harm Watkins suffered as a 13-year-old when he was wrongfully arreste…

Jackson issues formal apology to civil rights icon Hezekiah Watkins

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Jackson Mayor John Horhn delivered a formal public apology on behalf of the City of Jackson to civil rights activist Hezekiah Watkins during the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Prayer Breakfast Celebration at Greater Bethlehem Temple Church. According to the mayor, the apology acknowledged the harm Watkins suffered as a [...]

Apology to Hezekiah Watkins recalls 1961 Freedom Riders arrest and decades of service

Hezekiah Watkins, the youngest Freedom Rider, received a formal apology from the city of Jackson for his arrest in Jackson in 1961.

Jackson mayor issues formal apology to civil rights icon Hezekiah Watkins

Jackson Mayor John Horhn delivered a formal public apology to Hezekiah Watkins, who was imprisoned as a child during the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Watkins, widely recognized as Mississippi’s youngest Freedom Rider – a civil rights activist group that participated in integrated bus rides through the segregated South – was just 13 years old when he was wrongfully arrested at the Greyhound bus station in Jackson in 1961. The Freedom Rid…

On MLK Day, Jackson mayor apologizes to civil rights icon Hezekiah Watkins for wrongful arrest

JACKSON — On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jackson Mayor John Horhn issued a formal public apology on behalf of the city to civil rights icon Hezekiah Watkins, acknowledging the harm he suffered as a child when he was wrongfully arrested during the Civil Rights Movement and sent to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Horhn delivered the apology during the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Prayer Breakfast Celebration at Greater Bethlehem …