Annie Lee Wilkerson Cooper (born Annie Lee Wilkerson; June 2, 1910 – November 24, 2010) was an African-American civil rights activist. She is best known for punching Dallas County, Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark in the face during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.[1][2] Cooper's lasting legacy is recognized as her activism in the Selma Voting Rights Marches and her role as a female leader in the civil rights movement.[3][4]
Annie Lee Cooper was a civil rights activist who believed that the collective effort of the black community could change the laws made to segregate them. She helped mostly with the voting rights in Selma and helped many African Americans register to vote. Though she was a key player in the voting rights movement, her efforts were often relegated to the background because of her gender. She was very misrepresented in the media, especially newspapers, who often presented her as an "aggressor." Some popular headlines in newspapers such as the Lodi News Sentinel would be "Selma Sheriff Slugged by Hefty Negro Woman."[5]
^Gautreau, Abigail (2021), Meringolo, Denise D. (ed.), "What Happens Next?: Institutionalizing Grassroots Success in Selma, Alabama", Radical Roots, Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism, Amherst College Press, pp. 541–554, doi:10.3998/mpub.12366495, ISBN 978-1-943208-20-3, JSTOR 10.3998/mpub.12366495
^Mingo, AnneMarie (2021-10-15). "Black and Blue: Black Women, 'Law and Order,' and the Church's Silence on Police Violence". Religions. 12 (10): 886. doi:10.3390/rel12100886. ISSN 2077-1444.
^Lott, Martha (2017). "The Relationship Between the "Invisibility" of African American Women in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s and Their Portrayal in Modern Film". Journal of Black Studies. 48 (4): 331–354. ISSN 0021-9347.
^Greene, Danyelle (2019). "Illuminating Shadowed Histories: Centering Black Women's Activism in Selma". Black Camera. 10 (2): 211–225. doi:10.2979/blackcamera.10.2.16. ISSN 1536-3155.
^Lott, Martha (2017). "The Relationship Between the "Invisibility" of African American Women in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s and Their Portrayal in Modern Film". Journal of Black Studies. 48 (4): 331–354. ISSN 0021-9347.
AnnieLee Wilkerson Cooper (born AnnieLee Wilkerson; June 2, 1910 – November 24, 2010) was an African-American civil rights activist. She is best known...
began to arrest all registrants in excess of 100, and corral the rest. AnnieLeeCooper, a fifty-three-year-old practical nurse who had been part of the Selma...
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addressed this case, as well as the recent murders of the activists George W. Lee and Lamar Smith. The featured speaker was T. R. M. Howard, a black civil...
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postpone the desegregation of public high schools in Little Rock. In the Cooper v. Aaron case, the Little Rock School District, under the leadership of...
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Kraemer, McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, Sweatt v. Painter, Brown, and Cooper v. Aaron. His approach to desegregation cases emphasized the use of sociological...
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African Americans. Elijah Muhammad was portrayed by Al Freeman Jr. in Spike Lee's 1992 motion picture Malcolm X. Albert Hall, who played the composite character...
Fairfax County Public School Board voted to change the name of Robert E. Lee High School to John R. Lewis High School which is located in Springfield...
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submitted as a high-school collecting project by a student named Minnie Lee to her teacher, Julian P. Boyd, later a professor of history at Princeton...
outrage at the treatment of the marchers. Other members of the DCVL were AnnieLeeCooper, Louis Lloyd Anderson (pastor of Tabernacle Church), and J. L. Chestnut...
Jimmie Lee Jackson (December 16, 1938 – February 26, 1965) was an African American civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama, and a deacon in the Baptist...
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from the original on August 30, 2023. Retrieved August 30, 2023. Grayer, Annie (May 30, 2019). "Bernie Sanders takes 'umbrage' when audience member says...
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Mississippi, to a teenaged mother, Vernita Lee, and father Vernon Winfrey. Winfrey's parents never married. Vernita Lee (1935–2018) was a housemaid. Vernon Winfrey...
women were in charge of SNCC projects than during the first half. In Spike Lee's 2018 film BlacKkKlansman, Kwame Ture is portrayed by Corey Hawkins. In Mario...
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