I liked him. One Saturday, Clayton returned home to find dozens of cars outside her house: police cars, television cameras, reporters. And I was that Black woman. Clayton turned 90 in August, although you would never guess it from her appearance or her energy, which suggest a woman several decades younger.
With her trademark upswept hair and headband, she cuts a glamorous figure. Throughout her eventful life, Clayton seems to have called out things she disagreed with and ended up changing them, but not necessarily in a combative way. For Clayton, like King, the battle was not against white people; it was against racism, bigotry, segregation, mistrust and misunderstanding.
Peaceful integration was the goal. All my life. Clayton was never afraid of white people, she says. She came into regular contact with them as a child, despite growing up in the Jim Crow south: Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Her father was a Baptist minister, and she was one of seven children, including her identical twin sister, Xenobia. It was separate. Clayton soon learned to challenge those rules.
As a university student in Nashville, Tennessee, she and a group of friends were threatened with a knife by the owner of a hamburger joint at which they tried to eat one night. We were knowledgable about segregation. So that was a revelation. I felt the embarrassment of being sheltered. Then she would turn up in person 10 minutes later and be told the vacancy had been filled.
After experiencing this time and time again, she led an NUL campaign against it. And when you have a success, you will try it again and again and again. Ed proposed that she and Xenobia pose in bikinis for Ebony they refused, but they did pose clothed , but she and Ed became close and later married. His media acumen also brought him to the attention of King. Clayton had been aware of King for some time, thanks to southern Baptist conventions, at which he was already a rising star.
All roads led to Ed. King invited the Claytons to Atlanta to stay with him and his wife, Coretta. In , Clayton earned her B. She later earned a scholarship and pursued graduate studies at the University of Chicago. In , Clayton married noted journalist and civil rights activist Edward Clayton, who died in She later married jurist Paul L.
Clayton's civic involvement and participation in the Civil Rights Movement was informed by the Chicago Urban League, in which she worked to investigate discrimination in employment. As an activist, Clayton was instrumental in coordinating activities for the Doctor's Committee for Implementation project, which culminated with the desegregation of hospital facilities in Atlanta, Georgia.
Clayton also worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Her guests included Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne. Xernona Ranked on the list of most popular Civil Rights Leader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in United States. Xernona Clayton celebrates birthday on August 30 of every year. Xernona Clayton Birthday Countdown 0 0 0. Let's check it out! Please check the article again after few days.
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