Elizabeth Tate

Who was Elizabeth Tate?

Elizabeth Tate was a civil rights advocate during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s that desegregated African-Americans across the United States of America. She ran a boarding house in Iowa City for African-American students who were not allowed to use the normal university accommodation. During her service, she helped pave the way for African-American leaders to come aboard including the first African-American mayors of major American cities followed by the election of Barack Obama as the President of the United States.