A Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company official told a Washington, D.C. radio audience, on the record, that the company would not hire Black operators until the city’s schools were integrated — and it would take, in his own estimate, two or three more generations. Part 4 of a 12-part series, covering 1952 to 1974.
Nicodemus KS Farmer’s Family Still Awaits Pigford Payout
Bernard Bates farmed 950 acres in Nicodemus, Kansas, and helped bring one of the largest civil rights cases in American history against the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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