Obituary: When voter-registration activists came to Unita Blackwell’s Baptist church in 1964, she stood up to volunteer. Her lifelong mission took her to the White House and China.
Unita Blackwell was 31 in 1964 when activists arrived in her town of Mayersville, Miss., in a drive to force local officials to let black people register to vote.
Ms. Blackwell, whose family was black and poor, learned as a girl never to look a white person in the eye and to step aside if one was walking toward her. She believed Coca-Cola wasn’t for black people. They drank lesser-known brands, known as “belly-washers.” After leaving school at 14, she picked cotton and cleaned houses.
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