Virginia Foster Durr
American civil rights activist and lobbyist (1903–1999)
Biography
Virginia Foster Durr (August 6, 1903 – February 24, 1999) was an American civil rights activist and lobbyist. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1903 to Dr. Sterling Foster, an Alabama Presbyterian minister, and Ann Patterson Foster. At 22, she married lawyer Clifford Durr with whom she had five children, one of whom died in infancy.
Durr was a close friend of Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt and was a sister-in-law (through her sister's marriage) of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who sat on many crucial civil rights cases. Her circle of friends extended to Alger Hiss.
She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Family
- Spouse(s)
- Clifford Durr
Awards & honours (1)
- Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
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