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https://downhomenc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Add-a-heading-4.png19201080Chess not checkers. That's what Bonnie Dobson's father tells us about organizing for civil rights in the rural South in the 1950s and 60s. So that's the game that Bonnie Dobson says we must play now and she has the perfect place for you to start: Deep canvassing.