Unita Blackwell, Civil Rights Activist and the 1st Black Woman to Be Elected a Mayor in Mississippi, Dies at 86
by Dara Sharif from on (#4F7NR)
Unita Blackwell, a veteran of the civil rights movement and winner of a MacArthur "genius" grant who was the first black woman to be elected a mayor in the state of Mississippi, has died. She was 86.