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Velma Hopkins Quotes

1909–1996 United States

Velma Hopkins (February 24, 1909 – March 19, 1996) was an American labor rights activist. In 1943 she helped organize a strike against R.

United States
Activists

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They called us niggers, communists, everything in the book.

Oral History Interview (1983)

Paul Robeson, they came and told us he had been to Russia and what communism was.

Oral History Interview (1983)

The women were the backbone of that union.

Oral History Interview (1983)

Having a union made a lot of difference.

Oral History Interview (1983)

Shiloh was the only church that we could go into.

Oral History Interview (1983)

They were afraid of black people. They just couldn't stand to see, their nerves would not allow them to meet with ten black people without an attorney, whole lots of us.

Oral History Interview (1983)

Attribution

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