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Ruby Hurley
1909 – August 9, 1980
American civil rights activist (1909–1980)
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Ruby Hurley was an American civil rights activist. She was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and administrator for the NAACP, and was known as the "queen of civil rights".
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- Anniversary · August 9
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