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By Joe Atkins

Jackson Free Press | October 11, 2012

Josh Dedmond, Monica Atkins, Tyson Jackson and other Jackson-area members of the newly formed Mississippi Student Justice Alliance are planning an “I Am” labor-and-civil rights conference in Jackson in late November.

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