Evelyn Thomas Butts was an African American civil rights activist and politician in Virginia. She is best known for challenging the poll tax and took her case before the United States Supreme Court. Butts was born May 22, 1924, in Norfolk, Virginia to Lottie Cornick Thomas. When she was ten years old, her mother died, […]
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