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At DNC, a Powerful Force of Hope, Faith and Black Female Energy Fuels Kamala Harris’ Quest for the White House
Paulette Roby, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. as a teenager, has 'goosebumps' and a sense of history as she supports Kamala Harris' campaign.
As a budding teenager in Birmingham, Alabama, Roby wanted to take part in civil rights demonstrations organized in her hometown by Dr. Martin Luther King in 1963, but her mother refused to let her leave school. More than 60 years later, Roby and a friend who joined her in protest all those years ago, Judy Stickney, journeyed from Birmingham to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention to see first hand the ascent of Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic ticket in her historic bid for the White House. Roby is but one example of thousands of Black female activists, advocates, legislators, public servants and other professionsals who came to Chicago to watch Harris start the final push to achieve a level of gender parity that for so long has seemed out of reach for any woman.
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