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Hurley, Ruby

Biography:

Ruby Hurley (November 7, 1909 - August 9, 1980), civil rights activist and NAACP administrator, directed the NAACP's youth councils from 1943 to 1952. In 1952 after working on membership efforts in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee, Hurley became the organization's first southeast regional director. She retired from the NAACP on March 31, 1978 and died in 1980 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Isaiah DeQuincey Newman, (1911-1985), Papers, 1929-2003 (University of South Carolina)
  • Annual Report, [1964], South Carolina Conference of Branches, NAACP (Text)
  • Annual Report, December 7, 1961, South Carolina Conference of Branches, NAACP (Text)
  • Letter, June 4, 1963, I. D. Newman to Roy Wilkins (Text)
  • Letter, June 4, 1963, I. D. Newman to Ruby Hurley (Text)
• WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
  • Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at a mass meeting as well as a civil rights march and the arrest of marchers in Albany, Georgia, 1961 December (moving images)
  • Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at a mass meeting as well as a civil rights march and the arrest of marchers in Albany, Georgia, 1961 December (news)