She helped integrate higher education in the South. Her classmates wanted her dead

[Guno צְבִי]

“Seven Days of 1961” explores how sustained acts of resistance can bring about sweeping change. Throughout 1961, activists risked their lives to fight for voting rights and the integration of schools, businesses, public transit and libraries. Decades later, their work continues to shape debates over voting access, police brutality and equal rights for all.

The white mob gathered outside Myers Hall at the University of Georgia wanted her gone. They numbered 2,000 strong, a mix of KKK members, fellow students, community members and bystanders. They threw rocks at the dormitory. They set off firecrackers that ignited small fires. They chanted, “Two! Four! Six! Eight! We ain’t going to integrate!”


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/s...tes-wanted-her-dead/ar-AAOGjw4?ocid=Peregrine

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Good read, thank you. I cannot even imagine their courage.

And here we are, 60 years later, and we *still* have racists insisting that all's well, there's no racism any more, don't look over there...

 

[Jack]

"Her name and her reputation are now largely forgotten, but in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Fay Stender had real clout in the world of prison law. She also garnered heaps of media attention. As an attorney with an instinct for combat in the courtroom, and white skin to shield her from the worst verbal abuse handed out by judges and district attorneys, she used her privilege to aid those less privileged than she."
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/05/16/warriors-not-victims-george-jackson-and-fay-stender/

"In 1979, a man who apparently belonged to the Black Guerilla Family shot and wounded Fay Stender in her Berkeley home. Paralyzed from the waist down, she took her own life in 1980 in Hong Kong."