Skip to main content

Banks, Adelle

 Person

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Wilhelmina Goff interview, 2021-06-05

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc034_01.wav
Abstract Wilhelmina Goff describes growing up in segregated Columbia, South Carolina, where her father became one of the first Black men to register to vote. After experiencing segregation on buses in Columbia, she becomes involved in the Morgan State College student sit-in movement that desegregated stores, lunch counters and a movie theater in Baltimore. She starts her career as an educator in Ohio, where she also served as the Midwest regional director of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She...
Dates: 2021-06-05

Filtered By

  • Subject: City churches X

Additional filters:

Subject
Black persons 7
Downtown (Washington, D.C.) 4
Armed forces 1
Nurses 1
Women 1