Black, Hector
Biography:
Hector Black grew up in Queens, New York and attended Harvard University where he graduated in 1949 with a degree in social anthropology. In 1965 Black and his wife, Susie, moved to Vine City, a neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia to become involved in the civil rights movement. While working with a tutoring program established by the Atlanta Friends Meeting, Black and his family met and adopted Patricia Ann Nuckles. Following the brutal murder of his daughter, Patricia, in 2000, Black, an ardent Quaker, took up the cause of campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty. He lives in Cookeville, Tennessee with his wife and remains active in the Quaker community and in the Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Freedom summer digital collection (Wisconsin Historical Society)
- Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Hector Black and other demonstrators during a protest in front of the Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia, 1960s (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Hector Black talking to an unidentified young man while walking with other demonstrators during a protest, as found in the Sovereignty Commission's Edgar Downing folder, Atlanta, Georgia, 1960s (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Hector Black talking to an unidentified young man while walking with other demonstrators during a protest in Atlanta, Georgia, 1960s (Black-and-white photographs)