Carolina QuotesThose who went to school went to school so they could go back and make somebody else go to school.
Ella Josephine Baker
Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Oral history interview by Sue Thrasher, April 19, 1977; Southern Oral History Program, Interview G-0008, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
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- Oral History Interview with Ella Baker, Interview G-0008
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- 1977
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“Those who went to school went to school so they could go bac…” Ella Josephine Baker. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-7838DEB103. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/7838deb103
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