Gavin, Joanne, 1941-
Biography:
Joanne Gavin was born July 19, 1932 in Denver, Colorado. Gavin grew up in southern California and attended the 1963 March on Washington. Following the March on Washington, Gavin volunteered in the SNCC Washington, D.C. office and eventually became a SNCC staff member. In July 1964, Gavin took a bus to Jackson, Mississippi to work as a COFO volunteer where she remained active in the civil rights movement until 1971. While in Jackson, Gavin worked as a secretary at Tougaloo College and wrote under the pen name Cordelia Nikkalaos.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Clarence Clay, Jo Ann [sic] Gavin and an unidentified African American male walking on a sidewalk during a demonstration protesting Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's visit to Jackson, Mississippi, 1960s (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Jo Ann [sic] Gavin walking on a sidewalk with other demonstrators carrying protest signs during a demonstration protesting Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's visit to Jackson, Mississippi, 1960s (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of two unidentified African American males carrying protest signs while Jessie [sic] Montgomery and Jo Ann [sic] Gavin walk behind during a demonstration protesting Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's visit to Jackson, Mississippi, 1960s (Black-and-white photographs)