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History > USA > Civil rights > Activists
Willie Beatrice Taplin / Rev. Willie T. Barrow 1924-2015
Rev. Willie T. Barrow---2012 Bill Berry Award Recipient Video 13 November 2012
Rev. Willie T. Barrow, one of the nation's consummate community organizers and respected civil rights leaders, will accept the Edwin C. "Bill" Berry Civil Rights Award at the 51st Annual Golden Fellowship Dinner.
The award is named for Bill Berry, who led the Chicago Urban League from 1956-1969 and was a key leader in the civil rights movement in Chicago, the award is given annually to leaders who make a mark on the nation through hard work, perseverance and creativity.
Previous award winners are: Linda Johnson Rice, Chairman of Johnson Publishing Company; Holocaust survivor and Chicago civil-rights activist Hank R. Schwab; legendary actress Cicely Tyson; equal rights trailblazer Rev. Addie L. Wyatt, and James R. Compton, who led the Chicago Urban League from 1972 to 2006.
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Willie Beatrice Taplin / Rev. Willie T. Barrow 1924-2015
The Rev. Willie T. Barrow (...) championed civil rights for minorities, women, gay people and consumers; opposed the war in Vietnam and apartheid; and mentored generations of community organizers, including a young Chicagoan named Barack Obama
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Ms. Barrow organized her first civil rights demonstration when she was 12, protesting the fact that she and her fellow black students had to walk to school in her hometown in Texas while whites could ride the school bus.
She went on to conduct sit-ins and boycotts with luminaries of the movement, including the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, and joined in the 1963 March on Washington and the protests two years later in Selma, Ala.
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