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Article: JOURNEY TO UNDERSTANDING SOUTHERN ODYSSEY HELPS A GROUP OF BLACK AND JEWISH TEEN-AGERS EXPLORE EACH OTHER'S HERITAGE.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 22, 1998
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Byline: MIKE KNEPLER, STAFF WRITER
WIND WHIPPED her umbrella inside out. Rain soaked her face.
But Kelin Lovick, a black teen from Norfolk, saw the purpose of walking across a bridge named for a long-dead Confederate.
``I felt like I was a freedom fighter,'' said Kelin, 16, recalling the voting-rights demonstrators who were beaten by police as they crossed the half-mile Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on ``Bloody Sunday,'' March 7, 1965.
A few feet from Kelin, Brandon Rossen, a Jewish teen, had similar thoughts about crossing the bridge.
``It meant a lot to me because people were going over it to fight for their ...