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From the Dooky Chase restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana, 94-year-old Leah Chase fed the Freedom Riders, the American civil rights activists who travelled to Louisiana to oppose racial segregation in the 1960’s. She tells the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s Dan Saladino how her restaurant ‘changed the course of America over a bowl of gumbo’ at great personal risk to her restaurant, her customers, and herself.

(Image: Gumbo dish of stock and seafood. Credit: asiantiger247/ Thinkstock)