The Fight for Freedom

In The Summer Of 1965 An Eighteen-Year Old Boy Filled With Frustration And Anger At The Injustices Of The Segregated Society In His Hometown Of Troy Alabama Volunteers To Help Civil Rights Workers Sent To Alabama By The Southern Christian Leadership Conference As Part Of A Campaign To Register Black People To Vote. A Few Short Months Later He Finds Himself In Atlanta Standing In The Sanctuary Of Ebenezer Baptist Church Being Interviewed By Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. For A Position On Sclc'S Field Staff. As A Young Foot Soldier In The Civil Rights Movement John Reynolds Was An Eyewitness To History. In The Fight For Freedom He Shares His Experiences In Some Of The Hot Spots Of That Day Such As Selma Birmingham And Mississippi. A Passionate And Dedicated Soldier Reynolds Was Jailed More Than Twenty Times And Beaten On A Number Of Occasions As He Went Through Some Of The Toughest Battles Of The Movement And Played A Role In Awakening The National Conscience And Redeeming The Soul Of America.