Snow Flake Grigsby (13 February 1899 – 22 March 1981) was an African American civil rights activist and trade unionist.[1][2] Grigsby was born in Newberry County, South Carolina, to two farmers in a family of twelve children.[3] He received his high school diploma from Harbison Junior College in 1923, and he attended the Detroit Institute of Technology.[3] Grigsby went on to become a postal employee while raising a son and daughter with his wife Eliza Red.[3] Snow Flake Grigsby died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 82.[4] He died in Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Snow Flake Grigsby was a civil rights activist for 5 decades.[4] He used mass protest and organized his community to rally for equality in public affairs such as housing and jobs.[5]
References
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- ^ Miller, Karen R. (December 2014). ""Let Us Act Funny": Snow Flake Grigsby and Civil Rights Liberalism in the 1930s". Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit. New York University Press. pp. 163–204. ISBN 9781479893553.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ a b c "Grigsby, Snow Flake (1899-1981), civil rights advocate and trade unionist". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1500293. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
- ^ a b "Obituary for Snow F. Grigsby (Aged 82)". Detroit Free Press. 1981-03-24. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
- ^ Hagedorn, Olivia (2017). "Review of Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit". Michigan Historical Review. 43 (2): 95–97. doi:10.5342/michhistrevi.43.2.0095. ISSN 0890-1686.