User:Jadeslair/sandbox/Rev. Willie Barrow

Rev. Willie Barrow was a human rights activist who started her activism by getting on an all white bus because she did not want to walk the ten miles to school due to her feet hurting. When the bus driver confronted her about it she said "We all are alike, we all got butts, and all we got to do is sit down on the seat, and you’ve got plenty of room. So why you want me to get off this? Because I’m black? No, we’ve got to change that," She started working as a welder during WWII at Kaiser shipyards in Swan Island, WA, which is where she meet her future husband Clyde Barrow. In the 1950's she worked with Dr. Martin Luther King as a field organizer. In the 1960s she helped organize the Chicago chapter of Operation Breadbasket with Rev. Jesse Jackson. She opposed the US involvement in the Vietnam War and lead a delegation to North Korea in 1968. She was also active in National Urban League and the NCNW

Significant Events Attended
1963 March on Washington