Alma Adams tweeted the following:
"Ruby Hurley was born in 1909. After graduating from law school, she worked in the NAACPs Birmingham, AL office. She helped Medgar Evers investigate the murder of Emmett Till. Her work was so successful she fled Alabama in the summer of 1956 after the state outlawed the NAACP."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Alma Adams:
"Ella Baker was born in 1903 in Norfolk, VA. After graduating as valedictorian from @ShawUniversity, and stints with the NAACP and the @NationalSCLC, she came back to help found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and became known as the Godmother of SNCC."Read on Twitter
"On this day in 2009, @USPS introduced a stamp honoring Ella Baker and Ruby Hurley, two leaders in the Civil Rights Movement who spent significant time organizing with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (@NAACP).#BlackHistoryMonth #SayBlack"Read on Twitter
"Eventually, the school in Daytona Beach merged with a school for boys and became a college bearing Bethunes name. In 2007, the institution adopted the name it is known by now: BethuneCookman University." on Feb. 20Read on Twitter
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