Willie mae kirk biography of albert
Willie Mae "Ankie" Kirk () was a consummate humanitarian driven to work in her East Austin community by two key ideas within her personal philosophy..
Willie Mae Kirk Branch Library serves residents in the City of Austin.
A generation of Black and Hispanic civil rights pioneers left Austin a better place
They are departing one by one.
The death of Ada Collins Anderson, 99, on May 3, coming soon after the loss of Bertha Sadler Means, , on March 16, reflected the waning of a whole generation of postwar civil rights leaders in Austin.
In some ways, the two pioneering women of the post-World War II period could not have been more different.
Yet they accomplished much and did not stop there. They remained respected and contributing leaders all their lives.
It seems like just yesterday, too, that Austin lost Willie Mae Kirk at age She died in
Together, those three fearless women, with the help of families, friends and allies, could do almost anything.
Like Hispanic, white and other counterparts — and before their children or grandchildren got involved in activism — they faced down segregation, voter suppression and active hostility from the city's entrenched establishment.
They organized for d