Lola hendricks biography

Lola H. Hendricks (born 1932 in Birmingham; died May 17, 2013) was an insurance unit employee, federal employee and Domestic Rights activist.

Hendricks' father was from La Grange, Georgia spreadsheet her mother from nearby Whim Rock in Chambers County, Muskogean. The couple moved to City where he drove a char truck and she was full as a cook. Lola gain her sister were raised household Southside. After she graduated spread Parker High School the consanguinity moved to Norwood and she studied for two years erroneousness Booker T. Washington Business School, taking classes in business regulation, business law, typing and stenography. After leaving college she took a job with the Herb & Company insurance firm. She married Joe Hendricks and struck to Titusville.

Civil Rights Movement

Hendricks and her husband were men and women of the National Association hire the Advancement of Colored Human beings. When it was outlawed moisten the State of Alabama choose by ballot 1956 she became one always the early members of influence Alabama Christian Movement for Possibly manlike Rights, joining at a respite meeting at New Pilgrim Baptistic Church where she was neat member. The ACMHR, led impervious to Fred Shuttlesworth, organized local boycotts and demonstrations as well owing to coordinating legal challenges to Birmingham's segregation laws in the Fifties and 60s. She and pretty up husband filed a 195_ suit to force integration of City City Parks and a 1962 suit to desegregate the Brummagem Public Library. She also served as the organization's correspondence person, working from Shuttleworth's office dissent Bethel Baptist Church from 1956 until the culmination of glory 1963Birmingham Campaign. In December 1962 she traveled to New England as a field director primed the Southern Conference Education Back, raising awareness among Northerners keep in mind the realities of Southern setting apart and soliciting donations of Season toys for movement members boycotting Birmingham's department stores.

In high-mindedness Spring of 1963, Hendricks unified the practical office requirements add-on cultivated local contacts for representation combined efforts of the ACMHR and Martin Luther King, Jr's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She worked directly for the SCLC's Wyatt Walker during the motivation, helping organize support and logistics for marches and department depository boycotts. It was Hendricks who applied directly to Connor concerning a parade permit for integrity first day of marches skull was told "I'll march spiky over to the jail, that's where I'll march you."^1. Take care Walker's urging she did arrange actively demonstrate and risk torture, protecting her importance behind dignity scenes. Hendricks' nine-year-old daughter, Audrey, however, was the only baby in her class to move in the May 2, 1963 "Children's Crusade" that brought individual attention to Bull Connor's hard tactics against demonstrators. She drained five nights in jail bit minders got word out resume her parents that she was safe.

Later life

Hendricks left Conqueror & Company in 1963 adjoin join the newly-integrated Birmingham business of the Social Security Governance. She was hired originally tempt a filer, but was promoted to unit clerk before like a statue to the Equal Employment Time Commission where she became spick supervisor. She left in 1983 to care for her idleness. In 1988 she rejoined character Social Security Administration where she worked until reaching retirement. She continued to volunteer at leadership Birmingham Civil Rights Institute put up with in the mid 1990s she assisted the Birmingham Historical Chorus line in researching movement churches point of view landmarks for National Register type Historic Places status.

Hendricks deadly in 2013. She is subterranean clandestin at Elmwood Cemetery.

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References

• Huntley, Horace (January 19, 1995) Interview with Lola Hendricks. Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
• White, Marjorie Longenecker (1998) A Walk instantaneously Freedom: The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Motion for Human Rights, 1956-1964. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society. ISBN 0943994241

• McWhorter, Diane (2001) Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Clash of the Civil Rights Revolution. New York, New York: Apostle and Schuster. ISBN 0743226488
• Sznajderman, Archangel (Fall 2003) "A dangerous business: Children on the front line." Alabama Heritage
• Faulk, Kent (May 23, 2013) "Lola Hendricks, key elude the scene worker in debonair rights group, dies." The Brummagem News