Virginia Durr

Virginia Durr was born in the South and was the granddaughter of slaveholders. She had been educated at Wellesley College, a women's college in the North, where she learned to live with blacks as equals. She and her husband moved to Washington D.C. where she raised her four children and worked for the Democratic Women's Committee to abolish the poll tax. The poll tax was used mostly in the South to charge money for the privilege to vote. This prevented many blacks, poor whites and women from voting.

Later, the Durrs moved back to the South and became active in the NAACP. There she met Rosa Parks who was secretary of the NAACP. They joined forces in their efforts to end bus segregation.

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