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boston --d taking the the bus in her -- bus in lynchburg. she would walk everywhere or try to hitch rides on farmers wagons and so forth, something that was considered inappropriate for a respectable lady in that day. worked as a librarian for 20 years in lynchburg's segregated high school. was through her activism she was able to obtain resources to find books, make books available to black students, the types of resources we otherwise would not have had without her advocacy for black educational development, particularly encouraging literary interests of her black students. another key figure visitors will 'scounter in this section givens. -- section is giving's. givings. ii,he outset of world war in institutions like many across -- they wereates, to the mostted menial tasks and they were denied leadership opportunities. as black activists started fighting against those kinds of restrictions, started demanding new opportunities in the u.s. army, whiche u.s. at the time controlled the air force, agreed to create the tuskegee program to trai

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