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Delivered in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram fled Nazi Germany only to find racism as pervasive in the American South as anti-Semitism was at Europe. Marione migrated first to New York and then to Washington, DC. There, in 1960, she signed up with the Congress of Racial Equality, protesting discrimination in casing, job, education, and other areas of life in the country's capital, including the denial of voting protection under the law. In DC Marione made a name for herself as a flexibility fighter. She was a volunteer for the March on Washington and an organizer of a protracted sit-in to support the Mississippi Flexibility Party. A season later, at the urging of civil protection under the law leader Fannie Lou Hamer, Marione went south to Mississippi. She was part of a coalition to get rid of segregation and increase civil protection under the law to African People in america - and she was uncompromising in her demand for equality. In Mississippi, Marione became a leader of the University student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as well as an educator at one of the country's most influential Freedom Schools. The institution was one of the focuses on of the Ku Klux Klan. When they burned a mix before it, she coated the word "FREEDOM" in strong letters on the charred crossbar, creating an icon in the have difficulties for equal protection under the law. Like a white girl and a Holocaust refugee, Marione was the most improbable of heroes in the deal with for civil protection under the law for African People in america. That is her empowering history - a tale of courage, power, and determination.
