Carolina QuotesPeople have to be made to understand that they cannot look for salvation anywhere but to themselves.
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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