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Founding Members of the Women’s Political Council

Levi Watkins Learning Center via Alabama State University

Ten Black women of varying ages wearing their Sunday best pose together at the front of a large room. — Founding Members of the Women’s Political Council,1950.

Source: Levi Watkins Learning Center, Alabama State University.

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