How roughly $900K in the state capital budget could preserve Black history in Tacoma
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 3 hrs ago Matt Driscoll, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Apr. 16 The words are as powerful and prescient now as they were back then. Courage is the saving grace in this tense world racial situation, Tacoma s Nettie Asberry told The News Tribune. Courage of the white people who dare to show their fairness by helping us achieve positions of human dignity, and courage of those of other races who risk insults by quietly asserting their rights as human beings.
Asberry s remarks came during a time of stark racial discrimination and long boiling tensions across the United States, much like today. But they were made in 1961, during her 96th year, articulating a struggle she knew all too well. An article in this newspaper described Asberry as a Black woman with a doctorate in music who among other accomplishments founded the first chapter of the NA