A family’s legacy

Racial Identity

Growing up Chinese-American in Queens
The intersection of race, class and young people
Working for racial harmony

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Bahai Community

Wilma Ellis Kazemzadeh

Wilma Ellis Kazemzadeh was born in 1929 in Altamont, Illinois, in the town’s only black family. Wilma grew up between Baptism and Methodism – her parents became Baha'is when she was still a child. Wilma later worked on racial harmony, education and on human rights in the US and around the world.

Race Unity in America

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Slavery in America

An ancestor’s escape from slavery

My grandmother’s grandmother ran and hid with her baby under a log to escape her captors.

Wilma Ellis Kazemzadeh

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Race Unity in America: an Oral History

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A family’s legacy