# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/unita-blackwell
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:56:14.230Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/unita-blackwell"
name: "Unita Blackwell"
slug: "unita-blackwell"
description: "Unita Zelma Blackwell was an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped organize voter drives for African Americans across Mississippi. She was also a leader of the US–China Peoples Friendship Association, a group dedicated to promoting cultural exchange between the United States and China. She also served as an advisor to six US presidents: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton."
tagline: "American civil rights activist (1933–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Unita_Blackwell.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1933-03-18"
deathDate: "2019-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump