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Doris Castle : - Civil rights activist helped New Orleans with racial equality - Youngest activist in NOLA (17) - Came from a family background of farmers and landowners - Her father was a longshoreman and her mother worked within restaurants - She was always taught to be her own individual and be independent - Lived by the motto "fight for what you want in life" - Educated in a public school : Joseph S. Clark High school - Southern U of NOLA never completed her degree - Followed what her sisters did and thats how she joined the CORE and got into helping NOLA with civil rights movements -Her and her sister both did major things to help the city: Desegregate public bus services, voter reg., joined boycotts around the city for equal employment for blacks - Did fundraisers for George Wiley's welfare rights org., also worked for multiple service agencies -She explains how the civil rights movement changed the outcome of her future and set her up for success but not the way most women wanted to be successful (marriage, kids, college. etc) -She never birthed but was divorced twice -Died from cancer 10 years after her sister died from ovarian cancer -She was physically and sexually harassed by white men in sit-ins along with many of the women in the organization -Known as a freedom rider -civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the south to protest segregation -Arrested after riding the Montgomery busy to Alabama and then Jackson Mississippi