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Integration Pioneer Arthur Dye Transforms Charlotte’s Blind Services
In Charlotte North Carolina Arthur Dye the executive director of the Mecklenburg Association for the Blind expands hiring to include a Negro woman and integrates staff and programs. He promotes mixed race staff lunches and integrated schooling for blind children and pushes a planned workshop with the state to employ blind workers. Dye stresses jobs as the key to progress and champions gradual racial reconciliation in the South.
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Morris Mitchell
Putney
Dye
Charlotte
N.C
Dr. Mitchell
Mitchell
South
Massachusetts
Louisa Avenue
Mecklenburg County Association For the Blind
Arthur Dye
Frieda Phillips
Frieda
Courtley
Association
The
Lions Club
Catherine Gordon
New York School of Social Work
Georgia
Gordon
University of Carolina
Kentucky
Mecklenburg County
Dilworth School
Morris
Vermont
Dilworth
William Keating
Clinton
Mass
Keating
Boston College Graduate School
Southeast
North Carolina State Commission For the Blind
Mecklenburg Association For the Blind
SNICK
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
Uncle Toms
America
Arthur
Putney Graduate School
Putney, Vt