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Published February 15, 2021 •
Updated on February 17, 2021 at 4:32 pm
Published February 15, 2021 •
Updated on February 17, 2021 at 4:32 pm
For the entire month of February, NBC will showcase essays about Black Americans who pioneered change in United States history during the Civil Rights Movement that led to nationwide desegregation. Pioneers include those who led local efforts to desegregate schools, professionals who forged ahead to become luminaries within their industries, and advocates who stoked the wave of change head-on in the nation s bid for racial justice and equality.
Purcell Conway
Fear had nothing to do with it. I’m thinking about [my future]…kids I may have or a wife I may marry, and most of my friends felt the same. We were going to challenge the system and were not going to stop demonstrating until we got some resolution.