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Biography

Vivian Carter Mason

  • Activism
  • Education
  • Organizations
  • Civil Rights & Black Power, 1945-1975
Black and White Photograph of standing students
We are not fighting to be integrated into American life; we have been integrated since the day we were born here. We are fighting for the same rights other Americans enjoy.
Mrs. Nettie Hunt, sitting on steps of Supreme Court, holding newspaper, explaining to her daughter Nikie the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision banning school segregation
Present to Past

Education for All

  • Activism
People waiting in line to vote
Present to Past

Legislating Rights

  • Activism
A photograph of an African American woman washing laundry outdoors in a yard. Clothes hand behind her on a line.
Historic Event

Atlanta Washerwomen Strike

  • Organizations