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Dorie Ann Ladner (born June 28, 1942) is a lifelong civil rights activist.

Early life and education
Born and raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dorie was involved in many activities that made her into the women she is. As a young girl she joined the NAACP Youth Chapter. She then joined the Civil Rights Movement and became an activist after hearing about the murder of Emmitt Till in 1955. After she graduated from Earl Travillion high school second in her class she enrolled herself in Jackson State University. Dedicated to the fights for civil rights, she and her sister, Joyce, joined state NAACP meetings with Medgar Evers, Eileen, Beard Roy Wilkins and others. The same year she attended Jackson State, she was expelled for joining the protest against the arrest of the students trying to desegregate a public library, also known as Tougaloo Nine.

Going into her later life, after she got married and the birth of her only child,