“Southern white church women continued this attention to racial issues when delegates from twelve states attended a two-day meeting in Atlanta in 1949. ... At this meeting they vowed to go to registration & voting centers with their cooks and maids in order to safeguard their right to the franchise. They pledged to make voting ‘legally and actually safe for all‘ & affirmed their belief that ‘all men, white & Negro, are entitled to equal justice.‘”
suzisteffen Plugging away at this very interesting and granular book in Brussels and Germany (& France). I keep thinking about my friend who had a student who was like “y‘all had no activism so now we have to do it all!” & ... SIR. You are a fool. But also, the classism and the paternalism in this paragraph ... but it was almost all they had. 👀😕😮 6y
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