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A Freedom Rider’s Perilous Path

Throughout the 1960s, Dion Diamond x’64 repeatedly risked his life to advance the cause of civil rights.

Diamond is accosted by a hostile mob at a 1960 drugstore sit-in. DC Public Library, Star Collection © Washington Post

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