Hollis Watkins Muhammad Appreciation Dinner

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Hollis Watkins is an activist who was part of the Civil Rights Movement activities in the state of Mississippi during the 1960s. He became a member and organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1961, was a county organizer for 1964's "Freedom Summer", and assisted the efforts of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to unseat the regular Mississippi delegation from their chairs at the 1964 Democratic Party national convention in Atlantic City. He founded Southern Echo, a group that gives support to other grass-roots organizations in Mississippi. He is also a founding member of the Mississippi Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement with Jimmie Travis, Owen Brooks, Jessie Harris, Cynthia Woodall, and MacArthur Cotton.