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Last year I began working as a stage manager for Join the Student Sit-Ins, an interactive theater program at the museum set in The program simulates the training sessions students at HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) like North Carolina A&T and Bennett carried out in the weeks following the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins.

While seated in front of the historic, once-segregated Woolworth’s counter, visitors are taught songs and tactics from the movement by an year-old student organizer named Samuel.

One day during setup, I heard a voice behind me ask when the show would begin.

I turned to answer and did a double take when I realized the voice belonged to Freedom Rider Joan Trumpauer Mulholland.

By 21, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland had demonstrated against segregation dozens of times, been imprisoned for her work as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and been hunted for execution by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

Her brave efforts la