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"It was done to make sure they made them political prisoners to turn the public against them"

StoryCorps

Joycelyn Finley and her brother, Karlos Finley, both grew up in Mobile, Ala. surrounded by their father’s involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. In this StoryCorps piece, they talk about their father’s influence on the community and how his activism in Mobile led to his eventual incarceration...

Edited by Jalen Hutchinson

Brittany Young is Alabama Public Radio's Program Director and Content Manager. Brittany began her public radio journey in the spring of 2015 as a news intern for APR while in graduate school at The University of Alabama.
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