Eye witnesses: Danville civil rights stories told through portraits and memories


The Reverend Thurman O. Echols Jr. (far right) was arrested as a student protest leader in Danville in 1963. He is currently the pastor of Moral Hill Missionary Baptist Church, in Axton. Photo: Library of Virginia

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