Elizabeth Tate

Elizabeth Tate (June 22, 1906 – September 11, 1999) was a civil rights advocate during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s that desegregated African-Americans across the United States of America. She ran a boarding house in Iowa City for African-American students who were not allowed to use the normal university accommodation.

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