Rereading Strike the Hammer by Laura Warren Hill, I see many more connections, e.g. Rozetta McDowell.
a committee will evolve out of the meeting to unite local Negroes. 'This is what we need and this is what we're going to have,'" she confidently predicted.
Charles Ellsworth McDowell was my Great Aunt Daisy's spouse. Rozetta, a rock of Rochester, was the NAACP secretary.
Graphically illustrating the kind of unity she had in mind, McDowell's press release included a picture of herself, Malcolm, the Rochester Seventeen and the other two Muslims
