Thirty Years Ago Today: R. Wakefield Roberts and His Community Civic League Respond to History

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Thirty Years Ago Today: R. Wakefield Roberts and His Community Civic League Respond to History The explosion of Black protest in the 1950s and 1960s – in both the North and the South – surprised many Americans who were unaware of the deep unrest in their midst. But one Pennsylvania community had a different solution to the abusive conditions with which its African American community was forced to live. In 1964, many of the descendants of the African Americans who had staked...
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