“Five decades ago, she offered up her home in Selma, Ala., to civil rights activists for use as a base of operations in their voting rights efforts. The Selma-to-Montgomery marches were planned there, and they would have seismic implications for the American political landscape.” Read more in an article from 2012 (when she attended the Democratic convention) and see a brief clip of her on a recent ABC newscast marking the opening of the film, “Selma,” 
in which her character is portrayed by Lorraine Toussaint.
