Thelma Dale speaks at an unidentified event; photography by Mildred Grossman

ID: 4200 ~ Source: Dale-Patterson Family Collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Dianne Dale

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Thelma Dale (Perkins), Sojourner for Truth and Justice: 1269 Sumner Road SE

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Thelma Dale (Perkins), Sojourner for Truth and Justice: 1269 Sumner Road SE

Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Thelma Dale (Perkins), Sojourner for Truth and Justice: 1269 Sumner Road SE

By DC Historic Preservation Office

In the late 1940s, Barry Farm/Hillsdale native Thelma Dale (later Perkins) quit her government job to become national secretary of the National Negro Congress (NNC) in New York. As a Howard University…