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Unita Blackwell
Unita Blackwell, Photo by Nancy Jacobs
Major Works
- Barefootin’: Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom written with Jo Anne Prichard Morris (2006)
Biography
Born March 18, 1933, in Lula, Mississippi, Unita Blackwell is a civil rights activist, community developer, politician, and author.
Unita blackwell biography of christopher
Unita Blackwell is a part of Mississippi history. She did not finish high school and worked in Delta cotton fields until she was 30 years old. Then she was a voter registration worker in the early 1960’s.
Blackwell was the first female African-American mayor in Mississippi, elected in 1976 in Mayersville, MS, and she stayed in office for twenty years until 2001.
After a lifetime in the struggles for voter rights for blacks, she is today a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and she holds a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts.
She received a MacArthur Fellowship (MacArth