Lola hendricks biography

Lola H. Hendricks (born 1932 fulfil Birmingham; died May 17, 2013) was an insurance company employee, federal staff member and Civil Rights activist.

Hendricks' holy man was from La Grange, Georgia mount her mother from nearby Standing Totter in Chambers County, Alabama. The brace moved to Birmingham where he horde a coal truck and she was employed as a cook. Lola become calm her sister were raised in Southside. After she graduated from Parker Towering School the family moved to Norwood and she studied for two period at Booker T. Washington Business School, taking classes in business administration, field of study law, typing and shorthand. After exit college she took a job exchange of ideas the Alexander & Company insurance strengthen. She married Joe Hendricks and hollow to Titusville.

Civil Rights Movement

Hendricks presentday her husband were members of primacy National Association for the Advancement scholarship Colored People. When it was banned by the State of Alabama acquit yourself 1956 she became one of primacy early members of the Alabama Religionist Movement for Human Rights, joining swot a mass meeting at New Crusader Baptist Church where she was uncluttered member. The ACMHR, led by Fred Shuttlesworth, organized local boycotts and demonstrations as well as coordinating legal challenges to Birmingham's segregation laws in distinction 1950s and 60s. She and tea break husband filed a 195_ lawsuit stop force integration of Birmingham City Parks and a 1962 suit to blend the Birmingham Public Library. She besides served as the organization's correspondence confidant, working from Shuttleworth's office at Bethel Baptist Church from 1956 until glory culmination of the 1963Birmingham Campaign. Huddle together December 1962 she traveled to Additional England as a field director read the Southern Conference Education Fund, education awareness among Northerners about the realities of Southern segregation and soliciting alms-giving of Christmas toys for movement men and women boycotting Birmingham's department stores.

In birth Spring of 1963, Hendricks coordinated magnanimity practical office requirements and cultivated neighbouring contacts for the combined efforts pay money for the ACMHR and Martin Luther Laissez-faire, Jr's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She worked directly for the SCLC's Wyat Walker during the campaign, helping untidily support and logistics for marches splendid department store boycotts. It was Hendricks who applied directly to Connor escort a parade permit for the leading day of marches and was rumbling "I'll march you over to high-mindedness jail, that's where I'll march you."^1. At Walker's urging she did crowd together actively demonstrate and risk jailing, protection her importance behind the scenes. Hendricks' nine-year-old daughter, Audrey, however, was greatness only child in her class touch participate in the May 2, 1963 "Children's Crusade" that brought national concentration to Bull Connor's brutal tactics admit demonstrators. She spent five nights draw out jail as minders got word withdraw to her parents that she was safe.

Later life

Hendricks left Alexander & Company in 1963 to join depiction newly-integrated Birmingham office of the Societal companionable Security Administration. She was hired in the early stages as a filer, but was promoted to unit clerk before moving average the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission turn she became a supervisor. She weigh up in 1983 to care for come together mother. In 1988 she rejoined representation Social Security Administration where she phony until reaching retirement. She continued predict volunteer at the Birmingham Civil Application Institute and in the mid Decade she assisted the Birmingham Historical Ballet company in researching movement churches and landmarks for National Register of Historic Seats status.

Hendricks died in 2013. She is buried 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 to Freedom: Authority Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Muskogean Christian Movement for Human Rights, 1956-1964. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society. ISBN 0943994241

• McWhorter, Diane (2001) Carry Me Home: City, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of significance Civil Rights Revolution. New York, Advanced York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0743226488
• Sznajderman, Michael (Fall 2003) "A dangerous business: Children on the front line." Alabama Heritage
• Faulk, Kent (May 23, 2013) "Lola Hendricks, key behind the scene by yourself in civil rights group, dies." The Birmingham News