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Victoria met Jediah Hudson at a Greyhound bus station while working as volunteers for the Congress on Racial Equality (C.O.R.E). Jediah, along with the other African-American men on the bus were arrested. These C.O.R.E organized bus trips were called the “Journey of Reconciliation”.

C.O.R.E used these bus rides to test whether or not the  U. S. Supreme Court’s decision on June 3, 1946, in Morgan v. Virginia would be honored. The Court ruled that a Virginia law requiring racial segregation on commercial interstate buses constituted a violation of the commerce clause of the U. S. Constitution.

Unfortunately, many of the destination cities for these “Journey of Reconciliation” rides defied the Supreme Court and the volunteer riders were ejected from the buses and treated inhumanely.

The “Journey of Reconciliation” rides were forerunners of the “Freedom Rides” that occurred in the 1960’s after the U. S. Supreme Court, in the Boynton v. Virginia case outlawed racial segregation of interstate transportation facilities.

Did Jediah’s work for racial equality play a role in his conviction and death sentence for the rape and murder of a white teenage girl?

You’ll have to see the movie.

We do know, the court denied Jediah the right to call character witnesses and therefore, Victoria could not testify in his defense.

Hearing Victoria sing “Love You More Than Ever” reveals she certainly thinks Jediah is innocent. If Jediah is innocent, then for whom did Jediah serve ten years?

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Jediah was nineteen and Victoria was eighteen when he was transported to the State Penitentiary.  Listening to Jediah sing “All I Know Is I love you” helps us understand the depth of despair and desperation he felt knowing his life could well be taken from him.

Is it just a coincidence, that on the same day a beautiful teenager’s virginity and life was maliciously taken from her, the grandfather Jimmy Rogers never knew, Harold Rogers was in an automobile accident that took his life?

You’ll have to see the movie.

Being blamed for the death of his own Father made Red conclude “life is a cruel joke, barely worth living”. Jimmy’s father Red was blamed for the death of his own Father because Harold Rogers was out looking for Red to give him some good news, for which Red had been waiting. What was that “good news”?

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