Avery, Anne Pearl, 1943-

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Annie Pearl Avery was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with relatives. When she moved back to Birmingham, Alabama, she was no longer used to segregation. Eventually Avery became SNCC’s project director for the voter registration effort in Hale County, Alabama. After working with SNCC, Avery never abandoned her commitment to civil rights struggle.

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referencedIn Civil Rights History Project collection Archive of Folk Culture (U.S.)
referencedIn 1963 Danville (Va.) Civil Rights Case Files, 1963-1973 Library of Virginia
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associatedWith National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) corporateBody
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Pittsburg PA US
Birmingham AL US
Birmingham AL US
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Birth 1943

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