A Jewish Suffragette鈥檚 Impact On The South: Remembering Gertrude Weil

By Laura Pellicer,

Published April 14, 2017 at 11:55 AM EDT

Gertrude Weil spent her life fighting for civil rights in the South. She founded the state's League of Women Voters and campaigned against lynching and segregation. She cleverly navigated the fault lines that marked politics in North Carolina in the early 20th century. In new the book, (UNC Press/2017), Leonard Rogoff exposes the roots of Gertrude Weil's activism.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Rogoff, historian for the , about Weil鈥檚 legacy in North Carolina and beyond.

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Laura Pellicer is a digital reporter with 瓜神app鈥檚 small but intrepid digital news team.

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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