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Photograph of an interracial Mennonite Bible school teaching team in Atlanta, Georgia in 1963. The ten women stand on the steps of a building and smile. They wear light-colored dresses.These volunteers were part of a project sponsored in Atlanta by the Mennonite Central Committee, which sent minister Vincent Harding to organize desegregation efforts in the South.
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  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Women
  3. African American Women Civil Rights Workers
  4. African Americans
  5. Atlanta
  6. Civil Rights
  7. Civil Rights Workers
  8. Georgia
  9. Mennonites
  10. Religious Education
  11. Segregation
  12. Women
  13. Women Civil Rights Workers

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