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Veteran civil rights activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, right, listens to Jackson Academy alumnus and Southern Mississippi music major Corey Carter following a performance of the "Power of Conviction," May 12, 2009, at Jackson Academy, in Jackson, Miss. Carter said the composition for wind ensemble was inspired by two photographs of Mulholland, the first taken by a newspaper photographer in 1963 which shows the harassment Mulholland, then a student at historically black Tougaloo College, and other students and professors received from a white crowd after they attempted to integrate the lunch counter at a Woolworth department store in downtown Jackson, Miss., on May 28, 1963. The second is a City of Jackson Police Department booking photograph of her taken after she was arrested with other Freedom Riders on June 8, 1961. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)