Willie Mae Young Hart
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Willie Mae Young Hart (1915–2017) was an American nurse and civil rights activist in Portland, Oregon.[1]
Willie Mae Young Hart was born on April 4, 1915, in the town of Vicksburg, Mississippi.[2] She was married to Theodore R. Hart.[2]
Personal life
Hart attended Saint Mary's Catholic high school and began training to become a nurse.[1][3] She moved to Coos Bay Oregon in 1939 (formally known as Marshfield) and then to Portland.[1] She left Mississippi in the late 1930s after her first child, a son was born.[4] She said fear of violence against black men in the South prompted her decision to move.[4]