Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush - Civil Rights Activist

Civil Rights Activist

Bush marched with Rev. Jesse Jackson during the inaugural sit-in demonstrations in Greensboro, North Carolina at the age of 9. According to the Greensboro Historical Museum, Bush participated in civil rights protests from 1961 to 1966.

Read more about this topic:  Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush

Famous quotes by civil rights activist:

    ...I was confronted with a virile idealism, an awareness of what man must have for manliness, dignity, and inner liberty which, by contrast, made me see how easy living had made my own group into childishly unthinking people. The Negro’s struggles and despairs have been like fertilizer in the fields of his humanity, while we, like protected children with all our basic needs supplied, have given our attention to superficialities.
    Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 19 (1962)