Carolina QuotesAs assistant field secretary of the branches of the NAACP, much of my work was in the South. At that time the NAACP was the leader on the cutting edge of social change. I remember when NAACP membership in the South was the basis for getting beaten up or even killed.
Ella Josephine Baker Connected to the Carolinas
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- 1970 Interview in Black Women in White America: A Documentary History by Gerda Lerner
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- 1970
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