January 19, 2010

Springfield, MO MLK Celebration Highlights City's First Black Postal Worker

Springfield, MO MLK Celebration Highlights City's First Black Postal Worker | KSPR - News, Weather, Sports Springfield, MO | Local News: "On this Martin Luther King day, his legacy lives on, but civil rights leaders in the Ozarks say the fight is not over.

'We still need to understand how to love each other, how to accept each other, and accept each other's differences,' said Francine Pratt, President of the Springfield NAACP.

One person who figured that out years ago was Gladys Young, the first black woman to work full-time at the Springfield Post Office"

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