Civil Rights Vet Fund
Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 1508 , Segment 1
Civil Rights Vet Fund, Gee's Bend Quilts, POP Clubs
Episode: Civil Rights Vet Fund, Gee's Bend Quilts, POP Clubs
- Jan 11, 2021 9:00 pm
- 18:13 mins
The NAACP, National Urban League, and half a dozen other civil rights organizations have organized a pandemic relief fund to help people who participated in the Civil Rights movement. JoAnne Bland–who herself was just a teenager when she and other marchers were attacked by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama–and Loki Mulholland–executive director of the Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation–talk about this relief fund.