Hudson, Winson (1916–2004)
Hudson, Winson (1916–2004)
African-American civil-rights activist. Born Anger Winson Gates, Nov 17, 1916, in Harmony, Mississippi; died April 24, 2004, in Jackson, Mississippi; dau. of John Wesley Gates and Emma Kirland; sister of Dovie Hudson; m. Cleo Hudson (landowner), 1936; children: Annie Maude Horton.
With sister Dovie, began the habit of trying to register to vote (1937) and finally succeeded (1962); with sister, brought the 1st suit to desegregate schools in a rural Mississippi county (1963) and won the case (1964); was chair of the country chapter of the NAACP for 38 years.
See also memoir (written with Constance Curry), Mississippi Harmony, Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter (2002).
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