Jones, art teacher, Howard University; Lt. A number of the women pictured would be ostracized within a few years through allegations of communist association, sexual identity or association with the civil rights struggle of the s:. Virginia Durr: Durr and her husband Clifford Durr were early southern civil rights activists.
In she was a founder of the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, an interracial rights group in the south. She ran for U. Senate in Virginia on the Progressive Party ticket in She returned to Montgomery, Alabama in where she became a mentor to Rosa Parks. She was redbaited by U.
James O. Helen Gahagan Douglas: Douglas ran for U. Senator for California on the Democratic ticket in Her opponent Richard M. Gahagan lost the election and her political career was demolished. Pauli Murray: Murray was a socialist civil rights activist who was discriminated against as an African American, a woman and for her sexual identity. Enrolled in the Howard University law school she was told by one professor he did not know why women went to law school.
Harvard later rejected her for her gender. With the advent of the Cold War both became targets during the McCarthy days. Asked if she was a communist, she took the Fifth Amendment and challenged the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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Her passport was revoked, until the decision was overturned in Once their passports had been returned to the Robesons, they flew to London and the Soviet Union. Eslanda made her third and final trip to Africa, attending the first postcolonial All-African Peoples' Conference in Ghana in In she was diagnosed with breast cancer. For more information and related images, see www. Photographer: Star Staff Photo. Courtesy of the D. A number of the women pictured would be ostracized within a few years through allegations of communist association, sexual identity or association with the civil rights struggle of the s: Virginia Durr: Durr and her husband Clifford Durr were early southern civil rights activists.
