Unita Blackwell Speaks to United Presbyterian Women

Description: Unita Blackwell was community organizer of programs in Mississippi for the National Council of Negro Women. She tells her story of institutional racism in Mississippi to the the annual meeting of the United Presbyterian Women. Blackwell (1933-2019) was an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. She was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped organize voter drives for African Americans across Mississippi. She was also a leader of the US–China Peoples Friendship Association, a group dedicated to promoting cultural exchange between the United States and China. And she served as an advisor to six US presidents.