Sylvia Woods

Sylvia Woods was a civil rights activist born on March 5th, 1909. She was a trade unionist who had been subjected to racial discrimination and segregation much like African-American men and women of the time period. She refused to sing the Star Spangled Banner when she was a school student and her father was a union man. One time when she spoke to the principal of her school, she questioned the legitimacy of America's "land of the free" promised, the American Dream. She was quoted as saying to her principal regarding race: “Well, you could pledge allegiance to your flag.” I said, “It’s not my flag. The flag is with freedom. If the land is free and the flag is mine, then how come I can’t do like the white kids?”….

References

Zinn Education Project

https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/sylvia-woods-fight-for-freedom/

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