Crystal Award Presented To Civil Rights Freedom Rider Mary Ann Smith Wilson

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A Civil Rights Award Presented To
Freedom Rider Mary Ann Smith Wilson
A crystal glass flame (signed "FS") on wood base award presented to freedom rider Mary Ann Smith Wilson by Clarke Atlanta University in 1990.
Measures 9 inches high, on a base measuring 5 x 3-1/2 inches.
Very good condition.
Mary Ann Smith Wilson, student at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1960-1961 student sit-ins and secretary of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights. She would go on to be
the recording secretary of the Atlanta Student Movement from
5 March, 1960, to August, 1961. During this time, she went to jail, participated in freedom rides, and consistently led picket lines, protesting segregation.
Born Mary Ann Smith, she was the oldest child of Rev. John T. and Alice Smith. Like her siblings, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and Catherine Smith Robinson, she attended Atlanta Public Schools, and 1961 she graduated from Morris Brown College. While at Morris Brown, she was intensely involved as a leader of the Atlanta Student Movement for Civil Rights and participated in the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), under the guidance of South Christian Leadership Conference representative, Ella Baker.
She later obtained her Master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught biology for several years. She later received her M.D. degree from the University of California Medical School in 1975, followed by three years of pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California.
In 1978, Dr. Wilson returned to Atlanta and worked as a staff pediatrician at Southside Community Health Center. She later ran a private practice at North Avenue Medical Clinic in Atlanta from 1983 to 1988. Dr. Wilson worked at the Fulton County Health Department before resigning in 1996 to care for her mother and aunt. She later served as assistant professors at Georgia Military College and Atlanta Metropolitan College from 2001 to 2003. After living in Nashville for a brief period (2004-2009), she returned to Atlanta and received an Honorary Degree from Morris Brown College in May 2010. She is the mother of two children.
Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc. / Mary Ann Smith Wilson - Ruby Doris Smith Robinson collection on student activism
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