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Ballots & Brave Hearts: Honoring Juanita Craft and the 1965 Voting Rights Legacy
About this event
In 1935, Craft joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was appointed as State Organizer for Texas. In this position, she worked to raise money and organize new chapters. By 1958, Craft organized 182 branches of the NAACP across the state. In August of 1963, Mrs. Craft took 40 students via chartered bus to the March on Washington, and she helped students stage countless peaceful demonstrations designed to disrupt business at segregated institutions.
Craft died on August 6, 1985, the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. Her home currently operates as the Juanita Craft Civil Rights House and Museum.
The event will honor the 40th memoriam of Ms. Craft, as well as the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, where we recognize the assurance of voting rights for all.
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Location
Juanita J. Craft Civil Rights House and Museum
2618 Warren Ave.
Dallas, TX 75215
USA
Category
Advocacy General Events
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