Civil Rights Vet Fund

Civil Rights Vet Fund

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

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.