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Layle Lane was an educator, a social activist, and a political
leader. She was a key organizer of the first march on Washington,
D.C., which led to the creation of the Fair Employment Practices
Act and Commission after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's
executive order in 1941. Lane also played a major role in the March
on Washington Movement, headed by A. Philip Randolph. In 1948, Lane
encouraged President Harry Truman to desegregate the American
military through her involvement in the movement. After taking on
Washington, D.C., Lane ran for political office in New York City
where she played a major role in the city's social changes. During
the 1950s, she ran a camp for inner city boys in Doylestown,
Pennsylvania, to expose them to a way of life different from the
city streets. It is on this property that a street presently runs
through called Layle Lane-the first street named after an African
American woman in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. La Citadelle
chronicles the life of a real American hero who paved the way for
future social activists.
Layle Lane was an educator, a social activist, and a political
leader. She was a key organizer of the first march on Washington,
D.C., which led to the creation of the Fair Employment Practices
Act and Commission after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's
executive order in 1941. Lane also played a major role in the March
on Washington Movement, headed by A. Philip Randolph. In 1948, Lane
encouraged President Harry Truman to desegregate the American
military through her involvement in the movement. After taking on
Washington, D.C., Lane ran for political office in New York City
where she played a major role in the city's social changes. During
the 1950s, she ran a camp for inner city boys in Doylestown,
Pennsylvania, to expose them to a way of life different from the
city streets. It is on this property that a street presently runs
through called Layle Lane-the first street named after an African
American woman in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. La Citadelle
chronicles the life of a real American hero who paved the way for
future social activists.
The history of how blacks came to America is generally not found in
city hall documents, but in the old Black churches and in the
hearts and minds of elderly blacks who attended those churches.
Through oral history and participant observation, this book
attempts to unfold the story of what really occurred in the
development of northeastern American towns and cities through the
events that took place in Plainfield, New Jersey. This town was
chosen for the study because of its large African-American
population (65-70%), and the concentration of churches which were
established around 1900.
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