Clay Latimer
Clay Latimer was born in Montgomery Alabama. Her parents, Frances and James, unfortunately died when she was a teenager. After the death, she moved to New Orleans to live with her maternal uncle. While in New Orleans she joined Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom to become more involved with the mid- sixties issues. She was a teacher in a high school, which was very important because with out her help along with other women the school would have been closed due to the recent integration.[1]
Significant Achievements[edit]
Latimer played a large roll in women's rights. She was awarded the Outstanding Feminist Award in1978, . Then in 1990, she received recognition form CASA- court appointed special advocates.She as awarded Citizen of the Year Award and Public Service Award in 1994. In 2006, she received a Equality Award. In 2012 she got the Children’s Law Award.[2]
Education[edit]
Throughout her early life and high school, Clay Latimer started to develop her activist beliefs. She saw many social injustices which motivated her to take action. In addition, during her high school career, her mother forced her to take a typing class so that she could always find a job. She developed an avid typing ability which helped her in her later career when working at a teletype machine during law school. She attended college at what was then called Southeast Louisiana College in Hammond in 1964. Throughout college, she also experienced many forms of inequality such as being questioned by the dean of students for eating lunch with an African American male. From there she attended Loyola University School of Law. August 26, 1972 was her first day of school which was the same day she joined the National Organization for Women (NOW). These years were integral for Latimer in her journey to becoming the social activist that she is.[2]
Family/ Personal Life[edit]
Clayton Latimer was born on March 18th, 1952 in Montgomery, Alabama to Frances and Clayton J. Latimer. Both of her parents were very supportive of her and made it a constant effort for her to understand that gender should not discourage her from accomplishing and going after things that she loved. When she was small, she told her father that she wanted to be a detective, a very male dominated field at the time, and he made her a fingerprinting kit for her. At the age of 15, Clayton lost both of her parents and was left to live with her uncle in New Orleans, Louisiana. Once she graduated high school, she began to further her interest involving civil rights, but had no clear direction as to where it was going. One of the first jobs that she had was working at a catholic school located in a small town north of New Orleans. After working there for a bit, she began to expand her horizons and started working for organizations such as NOW and ERA, which she has stuck with for nearly her whole career. Once she retired, she still worked towards better social justice by joining an LGBT task force that helped LGBGT foster children in the system. Although it seems as if she is not working for this organization anymore, she began doing things involving the New Orleans Human Relations Commission Advisory Committee[1].[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Clay Latimer - Know Louisiana". Know Louisiana. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Clay Latimer". www.veteranfeministsofamerica.org. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
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