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Unita Blackwell Quotes

1933–2019 United States

Unita Zelma Blackwell (March 18, 1933 – May 13, 2019) was an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped organize voter drives for African Americans across Mississippi.

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Random Unita Blackwell quote

5 quotes

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

The more I heard about white people being so against it. the more I started thinking there must be something in this voting.

I’m proof that things can change.

When the bossman says you go to the fields, everybody went to the fields; schools closed down.

…what happened outside the courthouse that day was the turning point in my life.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Unita Blackwell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.