Civil rights activist Patricia Due dies
Quick ReadPatricia Stephens Due, a lifelong Florida civil rights crusader who led 1960s-era demonstrations and voter-registration drives, went to jail for trying to integrate a lunch counter, and suffered permanent eye damage from a police assault, has died. She was 72.
Photo credit: Handout | Patricia Stephens Due died at age 72.
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MIAMI -- Patricia Stephens Due, a lifelong Florida civil rights crusader who led 1960s-era demonstrations and voter-registration drives, went to jail for trying to integrate a lunch counter, and suffered permanent eye damage from a police assault, has died. She was 72.
She'd just celebrated her 49th wedding anniversary to attorney John D. Due Jr., her partner in activism, and was about to...
