Annie lee cooper biography of mahatma gandhi
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Annie Lee Cooper
June 2, 1910 – November 24, 2010
Raised in Selma, Alabama
“Upfront, pleasant and…absolutely fearless” was how John Lewis described Selma-native Annie Lee Cooper.
Annie lee cooper biography of mahatma gandhi
By the fall of 1963, the voting drive in Selma had “mushroomed into the testing ground for SNCC’s ‘One man – One vote’ campaign,” and Ms. Cooper was on the front lines of that fight, opening both her heart and home to SNCC and, later, SCLC.
She was born in 1910, when the cotton bales that made Selma “the queen city of the Black Belt” still shipped south by steamboat on the Alabama River.
While white Selma flourished on cotton’s bounty, Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers labored on plantations in conditions barely distinguishable from slavery. In 1901, Alabama’s newly-passed constitution purged Black voters from the rolls using poll tax and literacy requirements, and Annie Lee Cooper grew up never giving a thought to the idea that Black people could vote.
It was only when she moved to