Poetic Obituaries: Miss [Adele V.] Holden wrote of two lynchings

that occurred not far from her home--but also of how there were times of black and white cooperation.

"I never doubted my worth as a person. My father was a good person, but he was very stern about certain things," she said in a 1999 Sun interview. "He taught us to value ourselves. We had enough guidance to know we were as good as anybody else out there, black or white."

from The Baltimore Sun: Adele V. Holden

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