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Obama: Women Made Civil Rights Movement Happen

Darlene Superville, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) โ€” To President Barack Obama, women of the civil rights movement were โ€œthe thinkers and the doersโ€ whose toil and sacrifice benefited everyone in the country. โ€œWomen made the movement happen,โ€ he said. Obama said black women were the โ€œfoot soldiersโ€ who did the behind-the-scenes work of strategizing boycotts […]

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