Edna Griffin: Civil and Political Rights, Human Rights, Rosa Parks, State of Iowa v. Katz, The Crisis, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - Tapa blanda

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Edna M. Griffin (1909–2000) was an American civil rights pioneer and human rights activist. Known as the Rosa Parks of Iowa" Her court battle against the Katz Drug Store in Des Moines in 1948, State of Iowa v. Katz, was a watershed event in the civil rights movement. Griffin was born in 1909 in Kentucky, and raised in rural New Hampshire. She has said that she learned to read by reading The Crisis, the publication of the NAACP. According to Griffin, she never experienced discrimination in New Hampshire, although her family was the only African-American family in a four-county area. Her family later moved to Massachusetts, where she was first exposed to negative attitudes regarding race. She was educated at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she received a degree in English. She married Stanley Griffin, a doctor, and settled in Des Moines, Iowa in 1947. She had three children, Phyllis, Linda, and Stanley. "

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