Home > Tags > workers’ rights workers’ rights Edna Lyde - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill "People have got to stand up for themselves. Black or white. If you don’t stand up for yourself, ain’t nobody going to do it for you." - Edna Lyde Edna Lyde, born in 1928 in Darlington, SC, recounts how being Black impacted her experience within her family, at the workplace, and in her community in… Edna Lyde - On the African American freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement in Chapel Hill