(AURN News) — Civil rights pioneer Brenda Travis has died at 81, according to Mississippi Today, leaving behind a legacy that began when she was only 15 years old. In 1961, the McComb, Mississippi, native became a youth leader for Pike County’s NAACP and joined Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee protests against segregation. After sitting at an all-white lunch counter in a Greyhound bus station, Travis was arrested and spent a month in ja…
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