Born: 3 August 1921, United States
Died: 28 October 2003
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Ruth Marion Watson
The following is republished with permission from the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.
A former director of the Museum of African American History, Ruth Batson (1921-2003) was chairperson of the education committee of Boston NAACP that led the fight in the early 1960s against segregation in the Boston Public Schools. She also founded and was later director of the METCO voluntary desegregation program.