Linking Researchers to the Civil Rights Activist & Author
“But courage was growing in me, too. Little by little, it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.”
“I know that my little sister that I have not seen will not have to walk the streets that I have walked... I know that if I keep fighting... maybe one day the Emancipation Proclamation that was signed by Lincoln approximately one hundred and one years ago will have a meaning for that little girl... will have meaning to my sister, right in southwest Mississippi. That’s why I keep fighting.”