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Asha speaks outside of the old 135th Harlem Branch of NYPL. Regina Anderson Andrews was a librarian there starting in 1923, and Ella Baker became an employee of the Harlem Branch library in January 1934, when she was hired to coordinate an educational and
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A participant on the walk.
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Intent listeners. Participants taking it in.
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A participant with the booklet that included illustrations of the radical women.
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Participants reflect on what Harlem may have been like when women like Zora Neale Hurston, Mae Mallory, and Audre Lorde walked those same streets.
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Asha pauses for questions.
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Asha stands in front of the Harlem Hospital, where Salaria Kea, a radical Black nurse who combated Spanish fascism, worked in the 1930s.
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Asha stands in front of what used to be the headquarters of the Amsterdam News, one of the most important Black newspapers in New York City. Marvel Cooke, a radical Black communist organizer and journalist, was the first woman to work there.
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Asha speaks in front of what used to be The White Rose Mission, founded by Victoria Earl Matthews in 1897 and established in Harlem in 1918. The White Rose Mission offered a social center for community women and children as well as shelter and protection