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Euretta Adair was an American civil rights activist. She was a key member of the Women's Political Council and the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). Adair was arrested in the Montgomery bus boycott, one of five women indicted by the Montgomery County Grand Jury for being a leader in the boycott.

In the Montgomery Improvement Association, Adair served on the executive committee and the committees for finance and steering. She gave a speech to the National Council of Negro Women on March 25, 1956 in Washington, D.C., in order to raise funds for the Montgomery Improvement Association.

Historian Lawrence D. Reddick wrote of Adair that she "was a perfectionist, seeking always to shape the MIA into the intellectual ideal of the books she had read."

Artist Lava Thomas drew Adair's portrait in 2018 as one of twelve portraits in her series Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Personal life
Adair's husband, Roman Adair, was a prominent physician.