Rights Defenders

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“... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 8 (1962)

“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)