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Thelma Dale Perkins (1915-2014) was an African-American activist. Her maternal uncle was Frederick Douglass Patterson. She joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the Liberal Club (an African-American integration group), the Southern Negro Youth Congress, and the American Youth Congress. As a member of the American Youth Congress she went to the White House for "chats" sponsored by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to discuss the issues facing young people. She graduated from Howard University in 1936. She worked for E. Franklin Frasier on a National Youth Administration Fellowship. She later worked for the government but resigned, instead becoming National Secretary of the National Negro Congress. In 1945 she attended the founding meeting of the Women's International Democratic Federation, held in Paris.
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