A country store on a dirt road near Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939. Dorothea Lange. Library of Congress , public domain.
I don't think that in a community I need to go down to the city hall and talk; I think I train the people in that community to do their own talking.
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Oral history interview with Jacquelyn Hall, July 25, 1976, Interview G-0016, Southern Oral History Program Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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