***She helped organize campaigns to desegregate City Schools, ULM, and public facilities in Monroe
***Invited Martin Luther King to speak in Monroe in 1965
***Was an activist, strategist, and architect of the Civil Rights movement in Monroe
The Grand lady of the Civil Rights movement in Monroe, Frances Pierce Reddix, died this week; she was just a few months shy of turning 95 years old.
Mrs. Reddix died on January 9th in her home.
Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday, January 14, 2023, at 2 p.m. at the Little Flower of Jesus Catholic Church under the auspices of Smith Funeral Home.
Over 70 years ago, she and her husband, the late Dr. John I. Reddix, teamed up to form the brain trust and energy source behind Monroe’s civil rights movement.
From their homes on Flynn Street and Berg Jones Lane, Mrs. Reddix, side-by-side with her husband, planned…
