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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Mon May 21, 2018, 04:59 PM May 2018

The Selfless Servant Leadership of the African-American Women of the Civil-Rights Movement

From the article:

During the civil-rights movement, African Americans led the fight to free this country from the vestiges of slavery and Jim Crow. Though they all too often were—and remain—invisible to the public, African-American women played significant roles at all levels of the movement.


https://www.thenation.com/article/the-selfless-servant-leadership-of-the-african-american-women-of-the-civil-rights-movement/


A fascinating article about the mostly unnoticed African American women who were the backbone of the Civil Rights movement.
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