Civil rights figure in Shreveport, Louisiana, in the late 1950s through the 1970s. First wife of Shreveport dentist and mayoral candidate Dr. C.O. Simpkins Sr., she edited the newsletter "Freedom" and distributed it, taught voter registration classes, served as adult adviser to the youth branch of Simpkins' organization "The United Christian Movement." "She was basically the ground game," her son, Dr. C.O. "Tuffy" Simpkins II, said. "She was responsible for keeping the police from finding the affidavits of people who were denied the right to vote that were sent to the civil rights commission in Washington, DC. She also was responsible for my father's meeting the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. When Reverend King would come to our home she had many conversations with him as well as the other civil rights leaders who would visit. She had a very close relationship with Ella Baker."
Civil rights figure in Shreveport, Louisiana, in the late 1950s through the 1970s. First wife of Shreveport dentist and mayoral candidate Dr. C.O. Simpkins Sr., she edited the newsletter "Freedom" and distributed it, taught voter registration classes, served as adult adviser to the youth branch of Simpkins' organization "The United Christian Movement." "She was basically the ground game," her son, Dr. C.O. "Tuffy" Simpkins II, said. "She was responsible for keeping the police from finding the affidavits of people who were denied the right to vote that were sent to the civil rights commission in Washington, DC. She also was responsible for my father's meeting the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. When Reverend King would come to our home she had many conversations with him as well as the other civil rights leaders who would visit. She had a very close relationship with Ella Baker."
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