- She was an important figure in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; she led a program that educated thousands of African Americans on their basic rights of citizenship. Along with Septima Clark and Andrew Young, she led five-day workshops in which African Americans studied the U.S. Constitution and African American history, and learned how to read a voting ballot and organize credit unions.
- Later in life, she was vice president for field operations at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and director of student activities at Cornell.
- She received a bachelor's degree in English and library science from Virginia State College, and a master's degree in speech therapy from Boston University.
- Has three sisters, Effie Mae, Dazzelle and Anne Margaret.
- Parents are: Maggie Pelham Foreman and Claude Foreman.
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