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Sheila Sanders Talks About Her Drive From An Early Age to Fight For A Better Tomorrow
- 2022/07/29
- 再生時間： 37 分
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Sheila Sanders has a sweet smile but
don’t mistake it for weakness. She organized a boycott of the Sarasota Federal
Bank as a third grader at Booker Elementary School. At that time, her class
learned money management by filling out savings deposit slips for their
pennies, dimes and nickels, but the students could not take tours of the bank
as children from other schools did. Sanders persuaded her classmates to send
deposits to Palmer Bank where they could tour. Her actions foreshadowed
future activism. The teenager proactively participated in the NAACP
accompanying leaders John Rivers and Maxine Mays to local and state meetings. In
high school, Sanders learned about the political process by reviewing the agenda
of school board meetings and attended the meetings by taking the city bus.
“Some things won’t be said just because you’re sitting there.”
Sanders, William “Flick” Jackson and
John Rivers joined Dr. Edward E. James II as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against
the City of Sarasota. They successfully pushed for single member district
voting that opened the way for African American representation on the Sarasota
City Commission.