Women of the civil rights movement

Update: 2019-05-09

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"The movement never would have happened had it not been for these heroic women." Rep. Barbara Lee and Andrew Young explain why women are so often eliminated from civil rights stories — and why that’s so wrong.

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Women of the civil rights movement

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Women of the civil rights movement

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Women of the civil rights movement