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Because of my family and our community, my childhood was unique. I never learned what I couldn’t do — as a child, as a woman, or as a black person.

— Margaret S. Collins

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I had to do what I thought was the most important thing.

A lot of people opposed our civil rights efforts. I had to do what I thought was the most important thing. That’s all there was to it.

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