Lillie May Carroll Jackson

Biography

Lillie May Carroll Jackson (May 25, 1889 – July 5, 1975), was a pioneer civil rights activist and organizer of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP. Known as "Dr. Lillie", "Ma Jackson", and the "mother of the civil rights movement", Lillie May Carroll Jackson pioneered the tactic of non-violent resistance to racial segregation used by Martin Luther King Jr. and others during the early civil rights movement.

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