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16 July 2019/ Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights was just life

Civil Rights was just life
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Wilma Ellis Kazemzadeh

Wilma Ellis Kazemzadeh

Read about Wilma Ellis Kazemzadeh. Watch the full story in 7 chapters.

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— Race Unity in America: an Oral History —

Civil Rights Movement

  • Pushing forward as Baha’is
  • Showing the way to survive
  • A lack of diversity
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Working for racial harmony
Racial Unity

Working for racial harmony

I am a black woman so I felt my duty was to talk about race in a positive way, not dwelling on what we have been through.

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    Wilma Ellis Kazemzadeh
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An ancestor’s escape from slavery
Slavery in America

An ancestor’s escape from slavery

My grandmother’s grandmother ran and hid with her baby under a log to escape her captors.

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    Wilma Ellis Kazemzadeh
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Civil Rights was just life
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