Month: July 2023

1908–2007 For over 90 years Marnesba Tackett was active in the Civil Rights Movement. She was a master organizer, coordinating the major rallies of the day. She was best known for helping desegregate the Los Angeles school system in several ways. When she was 44, she tackled the problems of the L.A. schools in the… Continue reading Marnesba Tackett

1910-1985 Pauli Murray was a civil rights lawyer and later an Episcopalian priest. In 1940, 15 years before Rosa Parks, Murray was jailed for refusing to move to the back of a bus in the Jim Crow south. In 1943, she campaigned successfully to desegregate her local diner, 17 years before the Greensboro lunch counter… Continue reading Pauli Murray