Mississippi
Dorie Ladner, dauntless civil rights activist, dies at 81
Dorie Ladner joined the civil rights movement as a teenager in Mississippi, braving gunfire, tear gas, police dogs, and Ku Klux Klansmen in an undaunted campaign for racial equality.
Dorie Ladner was 11 months younger than Emmett Till, a Black American who was 14 when he was lynched in the Mississippi Delta in 1955, his mutilated body tethered with barbed wire to a cotton gin fan and submerged in the Tallahatchie River.
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