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117 Thyra Edwards, circa 1920. Photo courtesy of Chicago History Museum 118 Anna Bell Johnson Edwards, mother of Thyra Edwards. Photo courtesy of Vee Edwards 119 Photo courtesy of Vee Edwards Horace Ferdinand Edwards, father of Thyra Edwards. Photo courtesy of Vee Edwards 120 Nora Edwards, paternal grandmother of Thyra Edwards. Photo courtesy of Vee Edwards 121 Thyra Edwards, circa 1928. Photo courtesy of Chicago History Museum 122 Thyra Edwards wearing a cap and robe made in Uzbekistan, circa 1936. Photo courtesy of Vee Edwards 123 Thyra Edwards, seated third from left, with other black attendees at the Anti-Imperialist International Congress in Paris, 1937. Photo courtesy of Joyce Moore Turner 124 Thyra Edwards addressing a group of Chicago women to raise money for a children ’s home in Spain, February 1938. Photo courtesy of Chicago History Museum 125 Thyra Edwards,left, and nurse Salaria Kea on a fund-raising tour for the American Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, with the ambulance they raised funds to purchase, New York, 1938. Photo courtesy of Chicago History Museum 126 127 (Opposite top) Thyra Edwards with Douglas Jacobs, left, manager of the Relief Ship Campaign, and William Pickens, of the NAACP and the Negro People’s Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, 1938. Photo courtesy of Chicago History Museum (Opposite bottom) Thyra Edwards, left, and two other women running a “country store” as a fund-raiser for the Negro People’s Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, New York, 1939. Photo courtesy of Chicago History Museum (Above) Thyra Edwards handing out flyers for a performance by her friend opera singer Paul Robeson to benefit Loyalists in Spain during its civil war, circa 1939. Photo courtesy of Chicago History Museum 128 (Top) Vee Edwards, first cousin of Thyra Edwards. Photo courtesy of Vee Edwards (Bottom) Gina Loring, visiting in 2009 the children’s home in Gary, Indiana, founded by her great-aunt, Thyra Edwards, and renamed in honor of her grandmother, Thelma Edwards Marshall. Photo courtesy of Gina Loring ...

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