1269 Sumner Road, 2019
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
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…