Marnesba Tackett
Marnesba Tillmon Tackett (February 4, 1908 – December 17, 2007) was an activist in the Civil rights movement, Civil Rights Movement known for her role in working for school School integration in the United States, desegregation in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. Tackett was a lifelong activist, organizing Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr.'s visit to Wrigley Field in 1963 and participating in the Selma to Montgomery marches, Selma march in 1965. She was involved with the NAACP in Los Angeles, and in 1963 was unanimously elected as the education chair for the United Civil Rights Council (UCRC), which placed her at the forefront of education activism in Los Angeles from the 1960s to the 1980s. Early life Marnesba Tackett was born Marnesba Tillmon in Kansas City, Kansas, on February 4, 1908, to Ivory and Elizabeth Edwards Adkins. She spent most of her early life in Kansas City, graduating from Sumner High School, where she met her husband Joseph Edgar Tackett, ...
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