1. Dorie Ann Ladner was an American civil rights activist and social worker.
18 Facts About Dorie Ladner
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Dorie Ladner was a key organizer of the Freedom Summer Project, which promoted voter registration for African Americans in Mississippi.
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In 1974, Ladner became a social worker in the Washington, DC area.
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Dorie Ladner was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on June 28,1942, to homemaker Annie Woullard Ladner and dry cleaner Eunice Ladner.
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Dorie Ladner grew up in nearby Palmers Crossing, a predominantly Black community where she and her siblings were raised by their mother and stepfather, mechanic William Perryman.
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In high school, Dorie Ladner joined the NAACP Youth Council in Hattiesburg.
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Dorie Ladner was expelled from Jackson State University in 1961 for her support of the Tougaloo Nine.
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Dorie and her sister Joyce Ladner were invited to enroll at Tougaloo College, but instead became devoted to the civil rights movement, working with the Congress of Racial Equality on anti-poverty programs.
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Dorie Ladner joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was arrested in 1962 while she was trying to integrate the Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Jackson.
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Dorie Ladner was jailed for picketing in the 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, boycotts:.
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At a time when bail money was unpredictable and most Mississippi-born students were afraid of reprisals against their parents, Dorie Ladner was among the first to go to jail for picketing.
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Dorie Ladner attended every major civil rights protest from 1963 to 1968.
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Dorie Ladner received death threats during a voter registration campaign in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1964.
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Dorie Ladner became the first woman to head a Council of Federated Organizations project in 1964.
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Dorie Ladner was frequently invited to speak on panels and interviewed for documentary film projects.
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In October 2017, Dorie Ladner took part in a discussion after the screening of the short film This Little Light of Mine: The Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer.
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Dorie Ladner died on March 11,2024, in Washington, DC, at the age of 81.
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At the time of her death, Dorie Ladner was survived by her daughter, Yodit Churnet, four sisters, three brothers and a grandson.