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Essay By:Angeli Guerrero The example in Freedom Walkers (By: Russell Freedman) is of Jo Ann Robinson. Jo Ann Robinson was traveling to Cleveland, Ohio. “She sat in the fifth row seat” but, when she was seated the bus driver told her if she “can sit where she’s sitting on another bus than to go ride one of them.” The bus driver forced her out of her seat in an unpleasant manner and drove her “off the bus in tears.”She said. My thoughts are that I am very happy and lucky that we all are finally treated equal. Without the determined, hard working people like this, I most likely would never of been born. It's amazing to think about how so many people can make a difference in 1 person's life. Or how 1 person can make a difference

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