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In those days, for young black girls, there was the choice of singing in the choir, playing an instrument, (dancing) or girl scouting. I couldn’t dance, I was already taking piano lessons and singing in the choir, so girl-scouting fit right in.

— Viola Baskerville

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The community rallying to preserve and honor a significant piece of history has been truly gratifying.

This building is an irreplaceable historical community asset.

Everybody was looking at you, so that if you didn’t do things just right, you were somehow speaking for a whole race of people.

Leadership is about how well you listen to and help others. Any success I have attained is because I listened to someone who was much wiser than myself.

A lot of times, if girls or young women don’t see people who look like them actually dare to do these things, they don’t dare because they don’t see it as something that could be done.

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