"Dorothy Lee Bolden's emphasis on voting rights and equality was also heard loud and clear by another generation of community-minded Black leaders like voting rights activist and politician Stacey Abrams, whose 2018 gubernatorial campaign was strongly supported in Atlanta by the National Domestic Workers Alliance."
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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansNovelists from the United StatesLawyers from the United StatesPolitical activists21st-century African-American women
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Kim Kelly (journalist) Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (2022)
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