In Memoriam: Joanne Gavin

Joanne Gavin

1932-2021

SNCC veteran Joanne Gavin died at home in Houston on February 11, 2021 at age 89.
Born in Denver and raised in California, she took a bus to Washington, DC to join the March on Washington in August 1963, and stayed to work for a year in the DC SNCC office. She then worked in the Jackson COFO office, the MFDP state headquarters in Holly Springs, and in the Freedom School in Tougaloo, MS.

Joanne Gavin