Kathryn Magnolia Johnson
NAACP field organizer from 1921 to 1924, YMCA worker and writer
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Margaret Bush Wilson
In 1958 she became president of the NAACP St. Louis Branch, and in 1962 headed the State Conference. Elected to the NAACP Board in 1963, she became the first black woman to chair it in 1975.
Roslyn M Brock
NAACP Board of Directors
Dr Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
US civil rights activist Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and one of three women chosen to be a field director for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.
Mildred Bond Roxborough
Mildred Bond Roxborough was a longtime secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and traveled throughout the South regularly to help with organizing.
Julia Matilda Burns
US civil rights activist
Rosie Head
US civil rights activist
Marilyn Luper Hildreth
US civil rights activist
Marguerite Belafonte
NAACP fundraiser
Jamila Jones
Jamila Jones sang professionally as a teenager with the Montgomery Gospel Trio and the Harambee Singers. In 1958, she came to the Highlander Folk School for nonviolent activist training.