She took on Jim Crow and won in the SCOTUS (new book: FEARLESS)

[Omaha Steve]

7. By request...some more from the Omaha World Herald back in January

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/inspired-by-martin-luther-king-jr-bellevue-woman-s-mother/article_e8efbe9b-6aa7-5f83-ab7e-3f3bf4db8b7f.html

By Emily Nitcher / World-Herald staff writer Jan 16, 2017

Evelyn T. Butts fought for better schools. She protested discriminatory hiring. And the civil rights pioneer opened the door to voting for thousands.

Butts’ hero was the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. And on a holiday remembering the man with a dream, her daughter, Charlene Ligon, said it’s important to remember those who have and will work tirelessly to achieve it.

“Realize that these people sacrificed quite a bit for people to move forward,” said Ligon, an Air Force veteran who now lives in Bellevue and is chair of the Sarpy County Democrats. “For the whole country to move forward. I don’t just mean black people, but for the whole country to move forward.”

Ligon, 68, described her mother as “a mover and a shaker.”

FULL story at link above.