"Mary McLeod Bethune -- founder of and sole woman in FDR's Black Cabinet, defender of women's rights, education, and health care for the poor.  After the overturn of Plessy v. Ferguson she said, ""There can be no divided democracy, no class government, no half-free county, under the constitution. Therefore, there can be no discrimination, no segregation, no separation of some citizens from the rights which belong to all."""
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