Virginia Foster Durr

Who was Virginia Foster Durr?

Virginia Foster Durr was an American and a white civil rights activist and lobbyist. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1903 to an Alabama Presbyterian minister Dr. Sterling and Ann Patterson Foster. She married lawyer Clifford Durr, at age 22, whom she had 5 children with, one of whom died in infancy, and who shared her ideals, was a close friend of Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt, and was sister-in-law to and a good friend of Supreme Court Chief Justice Hugo Black who sat on many crucial civil rights cases. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 2006.