73 years after beind denied library card, NC woman is honored

Director of Wake County Public Libraries, Mike Wasilick, left, and Saundra Cropps, Library Manager at Olivia Raney Local History & Research Library, right, assist Pearl Thompson, 92, as she receives a Wake County library card on Thursday, July 2, 2015, at the Cameron Village Regional Library in Raleigh, N.C. Thompson was a student at Shaw University in 1942 when she was told she couldn't check out a book from the library because she was black. (Travis Long/Raleigh News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Director of Wake County Public Libraries, Mike Wasilick, left, and Saundra Cropps, Library Manager at Olivia Raney Local History & Research Library, right, assist Pearl Thompson, 92, as she receives a Wake County library card on Thursday, July 2, 2015, at the Cameron Village Regional Library in Raleigh, N.C. Thompson was a student at Shaw University in 1942 when she was told she couldn't check out a book from the library because she was black. (Travis Long/Raleigh News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
73 years after beind denied library card, NC woman is honored
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