Parks Trying to Pique Curiosity of a Changing Population: ; National Park Service Admits It Is Struggling to Reach People of Color
Charleston Daily Mail › July 09, 2008
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HARPERS FERRY - She'd spent a lifetime less than an hour's drive away, but it had never crossed Joquetta Johnson's mind to visit Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. What, she wondered when a friend suggested it, could a park in rural, lily-white West Virginia hold for a black teacher from Baltimore?
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Parks Trying to Pique Curiosity of a Changing Population: ; National Park Service Admits It Is Struggling to Reach People of Color
She found herself enthralled by the place where white abolitionist John Brown tried to start a slave uprising, the place where the Niagara Movement, forerunner of the NAACP, first met on U.S...
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