Wilson Daily Times, 10 February 1950.
Even without a photo, we would have known Lizzie Atkinson and Martha Mitchell were African American because the Daily Times did not grant Black women the honorific “Mrs.”
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- Lizzie Atkinson
- Martha Mitchell — in the 1940 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: farmer Kester Mitchell, 45; wife Martha, 44; and children Flora Lee, 23, Mamie, 21, Kester Jr., 20, Roy, 18, Christine, 16, Amanda Gray, 14, Purnell and Inell, 12, Cash, 10, and Mildred, 8.
It is my duty to honor the legacy of the late Mrs. Lizzie Atkinson and
Mrs. Martha Mitchell………….it’s never too late to correct a wrong.
Indeed!