Word: harper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harper Hines, an 82-year-old African American, is the subject of Judith Rollins' recent book All is Never Said: The Narrative of Odette Harper Hines, a collection of memories and inquiries from Harper Hines' life...
...Harper Hines recalled that her involvement in the civil-rights movement began when her mother "carted her off to hear NAACP meetings...
Later, the NAACP recruited Harper Hines to direct public relations. Harper Hines said she got the job because of the shortage of qualified men during World...
...Harper Hines said she became acquainted, often intimately, with well-known civil-rights advocates such as Marshall, Langston Hughes and W.E.B. DuBois, class of 1890, through her involvement with the NAACP, the Red Cross, the Works Progress Administration, the YWCA and other organizations...
...time when every black person was scared in the United States," Harper Hines recalled...