Walker, Lillian
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Birthname | Lillian Allen | ||||
born on | 2 October 1913 at 04:30 (= 04:30 AM ) | ||||
Place | Carrier Mills, Illinois, 37n41, 88w38 | ||||
Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American social activist and nurse known as an African-American civil rights pioneer in the state of Washington. Along with her husband James Walker, a navy shipyard worker, she established the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) branch and took part in numerous protests to desegregate Kitsap County.
Her husband died in 2000 at age 89. They had been married for 59 years and had two children. She died on 4 January 2012 at age 98 in Bremerton, Washington.
Events
- Death of Mate 2000 (Her husband, James Walker)
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes from Lillian Walker, Washington State Civil Rights Pioneer: A Biography & Oral History by Lillian Allen Walker and John Charles Hughes (Washington State Legacy Project, Office of the Secretary of State, 2010), pages 5: "Dirt poor but proud With an itinerant midwife and her grandmother assisting, Lillian was born at 4:30 a.m. on October 2, 1913, in a shack on a 20 - acre farm near Carrier Mills in rural Illinois."
Categories
- Traits : Body : Race (African-American)
- Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs (59 years with James Walker)
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 98)
- Vocation : Medical : Nurse/ Nurse's Aids
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social
- Vocation : Politics : Party Affiliation (Democratic)
- 1913 births
- Birthday 2 October
- Birthplace Carrier Mills, IL (US)
- Sun 8 Libra
- Moon 9 Scorpio
- Asc 21 Virgo
- 2012 deaths
- Traits : Body : Race
- Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Medical : Nurse/ Nurse's Aids
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social
- Vocation : Politics : Party Affiliation