Mrs. Due (center, in dark dress) is shown at a protest at a segregated theater in Tallahassee.
(Frank Noel, courtesy of the State Archives of Florida/file 1963)
Patricia Stephens Due, advocate for civil rights
Mrs. Due (center, in dark dress) is shown at a protest at a segregated theater in Tallahassee.
(Frank Noel, courtesy of the State Archives of Florida/file 1963)
Patricia Stephens Due, whose belief that, as she put it, “ordinary people can do extraordinary things’’ propelled her to leadership in the civil rights movement - but at a price, including 49 days in a stark Florida jail - died Tuesday in Smyrna, Ga. She was 72.
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