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From Suffrage to the Senate America's Political Women: An Encyclopedia of Leaders, Causes & Issues

Cullors, Patrisse (b. 1984)

In 2013, after the acquittal of a mixed-race Florida man, George Zimmerman, in the shooting of an unarmed black youth, Trayvon Martin, Patrisse Cullors, along with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, co-founded #Black Lives Matter, now a global network of civil rights activists. Cullors is an artist, author, and organizer living in Los Angeles. In addition to #Black Lives Matter, she is a queer activist and an advocate of prison abolition. A Fulbright scholar, she has been awarded the Sydney Peace Prize, the NAACP History Maker, Civil Rights Leader for the 21st Century from the Los Angeles Times, Senior Fellow for Maternal Mortality by MomsRising, the Defender of the Dream Award from the AFL-CIO Executive Council Committee on Civil and Human Rights, and the Justice Award from National Center for Lesbian Rights.

Her memoir When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” is a New York Times bestseller.

Cullors earned her BA degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 2012.

See also: Black Lives Matter; Civil Rights Movement, Women in; Garza, Alicia; Tometi, Opal

Reference Patrisse Cullors, https://www.blackpast.org/ (accessed March 9, 2019).

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