Brenda Travis

Brenda Travis
Civil Rights Activist
Born1945
McComb, Mississippi
OccupationCivil Rights Activist
Parent(s)L.S. Travis and Icie Martin Travis

Brenda Travis (born 1945) is an African American veteran of the Civil Rights Movement from McComb, Mississippi, whose imprisonments for protesting a segregated bus station and participation in a peaceful high school walk out in 1961 helped catalyze public sentiment against segregation.

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