Ratliff leads state, Columbia NAACP into organization's 100th year

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 | 10:23 a.m. CST; updated 10:07 a.m. CST, Thursday, February 12, 2009

COLUMBIA — It was in the mid-1960s, when Mary Ratliff tried to buy a house with her husband, Lonnie, that she realized there was a need for more civil rights activism in Columbia.

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