Johnnie Tillman Blackson
Johnnie Tillmon-Blackston helped organize one of the earliest grassroots efforts in the nation, later becoming the first woman chairperson of the now-defunct National Welfare Rights Organization. Under her leadership, the NWRO represented thousands of poor and Black residents across the country. The welfare reformer was born Johnnie Lee Percy on this day in 1926 in […]
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