13 Facts About Lola Hendricks

Lola Mae Haynes Hendricks was corresponding secretary for Fred Shuttlesworth's Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights from 1956 to 1963.

Lola Hendricks assisted Wyatt Walker in planning the early portions of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's involvement in the 1963 Birmingham campaign during the Civil Rights Movement.

On December 19,1932 Lola Mae Haynes, the first of two daughters, was born to Buford and Addie Hanes.

Lola Hendricks Mae Haynes was born in Birmingham, Alabama on 4th Avenue and 15th Street South on the south side of Birmingham.

Lola Hendricks's father was employed as a coal-truck driver from LaGrange, Georgia and her mother, from Chambers County, Alabama, worked as a domestic cook.

Lola Hendricks worked in files for about two years, and then was promoted to Clerk Typing and again, to Award Typing.

Lola Hendricks served as the organization's correspondence secretary, working from Shuttleworth's office at Bethel Baptist Church from 1956 until the culmination of the Birmingham Campaign.

Lola Hendricks spent five nights in jail as minders got word out to her parents that she was safe.

Lola Hendricks was the youngest known child to be arrested for that protest.

Lola Hendricks left her insurance company job in 1963 to join the newly integrated Birmingham office of the Social Security Administration.

Lola Hendricks was hired originally as a filer but was promoted to the unit clerk before moving to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission where she became a supervisor.

Lola Hendricks left in 1983 to care for her mother.

Lola Hendricks continued to volunteer at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and in the mid-1990s she assisted the Birmingham Historical Society in researching movement churches and landmarks for National Register of Historic Places status.