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Every city lias its own story of the Civil Rights Movement, and within each tale lies a hero who led the efforts to change the racial landscape of his or her community. For Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Eula Johnson was its icon.
"She is known in this county as the Rosa Parks of Broward County," said Marsha Ellison, president of the Fort Lauderdale branch of the NAACP.
Johnson will now be honored in a place where people can become educated about all of her work. Her home, which was sometimes used as an unofficial command center to plan protests, will become a museum and welcome center. It will be managed by the Fort Lauderdale NAACP Executive Committee.
"It is important that we tell our own story to young people who did not know her," Ellison said. "People pass the house a million times not knowing the significance...