Joanne Gavin
Joanne Gavin (1932–2021) was a civil rights activist. Life 
Gavin was born on July 19, 1932, in Denver. She worked with the Congress of Racial Equality in San Francisco. She attended the March on Washington. She worked with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in Washington, D.C. She organized a  Freedom School for the Tougaloo community. She was a secretary at Tougaloo College. She wrote for Workers World. She wrote Cordelia's Column, under the pen name Cordelia Nikkalaos. She co-founded the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement. She died on February 11, 2021, in Houston. See also 

 Capital punishment in Texas

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1932 births
2021 deaths
American civil rights activists
Activists from Denver