Annie Lee Cooper
Civil Rights Leader

Annie Lee Cooper Net Worth

Annie Lee Cooper was an Alabama-born activist who is remembered for her role in the Selma Voting Rights Movement of 1965. On June 2, 1910, she was born in Alabama. During the Movement, Sheriff Jim Clark used a law enforcement club to try to force her out of a voting line at Alabama's Dallas County Courthouse. In response, Cooper hit him with her purse. This act of defiance was a powerful symbol of the struggle for voting rights in the United States.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day June 2, 1910
Birth Place Alabama
Age 110 YEARS OLD
Died On Nov 24, 2010 (age 100)
Birth Sign Gemini

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

About

Remembered for her role in the Selma Voting Rights Movement of 1965, this Alabama-born Activist hit Sheriff Jim Clark after he used a law enforcement club to try to force her out of a voting line at Alabama's Dallas County Courthouse.

Before Fame

She left school in the seventh grade and eventually found work as a nursing home caregiver. She was unjustly fired from this position as a result of her civil rights activism.

Trivia

She lived more than five months past her one hundredth birthday.

Family Life

The children of Charles Wilkerson and Lucy Jones, she and her nine siblings spent their early years in Selma, Alabama. She later lived and worked in Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, before returning to her native Alabama in the early 1960s.

Associated With

In the 2014 movie Selma, talk show host and Actress Oprah Winfrey portrays Annie Lee Cooper.

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