Scott Bates

The World

NAACP Women Made History in Tennessee

Conflict & Justice

To commemorate the NAACP’s Centennial, The Takeaway speaks to Sarah Staten, who was one of the female activists who led the first branch of the NAACP in Franklin County, a rural area of 40,000 people in the southern part of Middle Tennessee.

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