Sunny Nash's video: Autrilla Scott A Place Called Hope

Autrilla Scott (1930-2013) (http://sunnynash.blogspot.com/2012/09/autrilla-scott-place-called-hope.html) Autrilla Scott fought Jim Crow laws in Hope, Arkansas, and racism in Southern California, where most people have no idea there was ever a race problem. Like Rosa Parks after moving to Detroit, Autrilla Scott was dismayed by racial conditions in Long Beach when she arrived in 1950. Both women went to work trying to improve those conditions and continued to work toward improvement of U.S. race relations throughout their lives and, even as older women, did not give up the fight. And in death, their fight lives on. A Long Beach, California, civil rights pioneer and social activist, Autrilla Scott babysat a future president, changed the lives of those around her, saved her neighborhood and left a legacy of humanitarianism to her city and to us all.