"The best of times ... the worst of times": youth -- "It said what it meant and meant what it said": voter registration -- "I'm ready to go": school desegregation -- Freedom summer and "good things": civil rights movement, 1960-1970 -- "Fighting is an everyday thing": the continuing crusade for civil rights -- "The cost to be free": reflections on a life of activism.
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In 1963, Winson Hudson finally registered to vote in Leake Co. Mississippi, when she interpreted part of the state constitution by saying, "It meant what it said and it said what it meant." Her first attempt had been in 1937. A lifelong native of the rural, all-Black community of Harmony, Winson has lived through some of the most racially oppressive periods in her state's history, and has devoted her life to combating discrimination ...
Hudson, Winson,1916-
Hudson, Winson,1916-
African American women civil rights workers-- Mississippi, Biography.