Diversity Talks

This Black History Month, Diversity Talks is highlighting youth activists from the Civil Rights Movement, with help from the Library of Congress Archives. Today, we are sharing the story of Joyce Ladner and Dorie Ann Ladner.

In an interview with the Library of Congress, Joyce Ladner shared her reason for getting involved in the Civil Rights Movement:
“The Movement was the most exciting thing that one could engage in. I often say that, in fact, I coined the term, the ‘Emmett Till generation.’ I said that there was no more exciting time to have been born at the time and the place and to the parents that movement, young movement, people were born to… I remember so clearly Uncle Archie who was in World War I, went to France, and he always told us, ‘Your generation is going to change things.’”

To see more from her interview alongside Dorie Ann Ladner, click here: https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669153/

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