Jeanne Elbe (@burg55): "It is always a woman. 25 K was like a million in 1958. No one wanted to kill her really cuz anyone could see her righteous beliefs. "

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Jeanne Elbe

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@burg55

It is always a woman.

25 K was like a million in 1958.

No one wanted to kill her really cuz anyone could see her righteous beliefs.

Kerry Chaput

6d

In 1958, Eleanor Roosevelt traveled to Highlander Folk School in Tennessee to speak at a civil rights workshop, despite the KKK placing a 25k bounty on her head. She went anyway, refusing Secret Service, but carrying a loaded pistol in her beaded handbag.

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