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American Friends Service Committee Speaker's Bureau flyer for Crystal Bird of Philadelphia, circa 1927.
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American Friends Service Committee Speaker's Bureau flyer for Crystal Bird bears her photgraph and details of the event.

Credit: Courtesy of American Friends Service Committee

After taking a staff position with the American Friends Service Committee in 1927, Crystal Bird made 210 appearances before white groups throughout the eastern United States to help "people of other racial groups understand the humanness of the Negro wherever he is found."

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