Patricia Stephens Due Dies

The New York Times

“Unsung Foot Soldiers.”

Patricia Stephens Due, whose belief that, as she put it, “ordinary people can do extraordinary things” propelled her to leadership in the civil rights movement — but at a price, including 49 days in a stark Florida jail — died on Tuesday in Smyrna, Ga. She was 72.

Ericka Huggins, Former Black Panther Party Leader, to Speak at Gonzaga

The Melding of Spiritual Activism and Social Justice is the title of a lecture to be given by Ericka Huggins on February 13 at 7 pm at Gonzaga University’s Jepson Wolff Auditorium. Ms Huggins is an “activist, poet, professor, and former Black Panther Party Leader and political prisoner”.

 

On This Day

Tue, 1926-01-05

On this date, Hosea Williams was born in, 1926. He was an African-American civil rights activist.