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Fearless: How a Poor Virginia Seamstress Took on Jim Crow, Beat the Poll Tax, and Changed Her City Forever by Charlene Butts Ligon
When: Tue., March 17, 6-7 p.m. 2020
On March 17 at 6 p.m., Charlene Butts Ligon will tell the story of her mother, Evelyn T. Butts, a poor seamstress in Norfolk, Virginia, who became a forceful and courageous voting rights champion and won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that abolished the poll tax.
The story of Evelyn T. Butts, a poor seamstress who became a forceful and courageous voting rights champion and won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that abolished the poll tax.
Price: $10.
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