[Oral History Interview with Diane Ragsdale] Page: 4
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of the NAACP. So she was kind of like the
community organizer of youth chapters for the
NAACP. That institution was there. That was
really the beginning of my activism. I was
eleven years old.
Dulaney: So you were a member of the NAACP Youth Council?
Ragsdale: Under the leadership of Juanita Craft. My sister
and I. My sister being Charlotte Ragsdale who
was an activist in her own right. So, I was
eleven and she was thirteen and we were both
active members of NAACP. Of course like I
indicated my mother made sure that took place.
We were raised for the most part by three
institutions. One was I would say a very
strong family and of course the church-church
or temple CME [Christian Methodist Episcopal].
I'm a life-long CME. And then, of course, the
NAACP Youth Council. You know, along with all
this my mother also made sure that we were
members of Maria Morgan YWCA which was the
Negro chapter, if you will, of the YWCA [of
Metropolitan Dallas]. I would walk door to
door with my mom collecting memberships and
doing a membership drive, etcetera. So all4
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