Obama's rhetoric on responsibility has local echoes

July 20, 2008

While she was reviving the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter in Baltimore, Lillie May Jackson was regarded as something of a screamer. She was in the face of authority so persistently that white judges, among others, kept a wary eye out for her.

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