Stories tagged "Civil Rights": 2
Stories
Grace Thorpe – WAAC Recruiter, American Indian Advocate, Environmental Activist
“Well then after I got out of the service I was discharged from the WAC in Manilla, and I took a War Department Job in Tokyo. That’s when the occupation had just started there. As a matter of fact, I was in the first plane of women going into…
Medgar Evers – Soldier and Civil Rights Activist
"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea."
~Medgar Evers or Myrlie Evers, widow of Medgar Evers, 1963 Born into a working-class Black family in Decatur, Mississippi, Medgar Evers attended segregated schools and witnessed a…