Lola hendricks biography
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Lola Hendricks
Lola H. Hendricks (born 1932 in Birmingham; died May 17, 2013) was an insurance company employee, federal employee and Civil Rights activist.
Lola hendricks biography
Hendricks' father was from La Grange, Georgia and her mother from nearby Standing Rock in Chambers County, Alabama. The couple moved to Birmingham where he drove a coal truck and she was employed as a cook. Lola and her sister were raised in Southside.
After she graduated from Parker High School the family moved to Norwood and she studied for two years at Booker T. Washington Business College, taking classes in business administration, business law, typing and shorthand. After leaving college she took a job with the Alexander & Company insurance firm.
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She married Joe Hendricks and moved to Titusville.
Civil Rights Movement
Hendricks and her husband were members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. When it was outlawed by the State of Alabama in 1956 she became one of the early member