Patricia Stephens Due

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Civil rights activist (1939-2012)

United States ActivistsLived 1939 to 2012 · aged 72

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Patricia Stephens Due was one of the leading African-American civil rights activists in her home state of Florida.

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Patricia Stephens (in sunglasses) in a boycott and picketing of downtown stores: Tallahassee, Florida. December 1960.

Patricia Stephens Due at the memorial service for Judy Benninger [Brown] in Gainesville, Florida, June 1991.

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Patricia Stephens Due was one of the leading African-American civil rights activists in her home state of Florida. Along with her sister Priscilla and others trained in nonviolent protest by CORE, Due spent 49 days in one of the nation's first jail-ins, refusing to pay a fine for sitting in a Woolworth's "White only" lunch counter in Tallahassee, Florida in 1960. Her eyes were damaged from tear gas used by police on students protesting such arrests, so she wore dark glasses for the rest of her life. She served in many leadership roles in CORE and the NAACP, fighting against segregated stores, buses, theaters, schools, restaurants, and hotels, protesting unjust laws, and leading one of the most dangerous voter registration efforts in the country in northern Florida in the 1960s.

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