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A generation of Black and Hispanic civil rights pioneers left Austin a better place
They are departing one by one.
The death of Ada Collins Anderson, 99, on May 3, coming soon after the loss of Bertha Sadler Means, 100, on March 16, reflected the waning of a whole generation of postwar civil rights leaders in Austin.
In some ways, the two pioneering women of the post-World War II period could not have been more different.
Yet they accomplished much and did not stop there.
Willie mae kirk biography of michael jackson
They remained respected and contributing leaders all their lives.
It seems like just yesterday, too, that Austin lost Willie Mae Kirk at age 92. She died in 2013.
Together, those three fearless women, with the help of families, friends and allies, could do almost anything.
Like Hispanic, white and other counterparts — and before their children or grandchildren got involved in activism — they faced down segregation, voter suppression and active hostility from the city's entrenched establishment.
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