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Meet Inez Bishop: The Manchester Activist Who Fought for Workplace Equality and Civil Rights

Meet Inez Bishop: The Manchester Activist Who Fought for Workplace Equality and Civil Rights

Inez Glenn Bishop was born in Florida in 1927. But it wasn’t until she moved North that she realized her skin color made her feel like a second-class citizen.

She and her husband, Frank Bishop, moved to Manchester, NH, in 1947, following her mother, Bertha Evans, and her brother-in-law. The Bishops found not many people were willing to rent to Blacks. And then there was work.