As per our current Database, Annie Lee Cooper has been died on Nov 24, 2010 (age 100).
When Annie Lee Cooper die, Annie Lee Cooper was 100 years old.
Popular As | Annie Lee Cooper |
Occupation | Civil Rights Leader |
Age | 100 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
Born | June 2, 1910 (Alabama) |
Birthday | June 2 |
Town/City | Alabama |
Nationality | Alabama |
Annie Lee Cooperโs zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.
Annie Lee Cooper was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Remembered for her role in the Selma Voting Rights Movement of 1965, this Alabama-born Activist hit Sheriff Jim Clark after he used a law enforcement club to try to force her out of a voting line at Alabama's Dallas County Courthouse.
She left school in the seventh grade and eventually found work as a nursing home caregiver. She was unjustly fired from this position as a result of her civil rights activism.
She lived more than five months past her one hundredth birthday.
The children of Charles Wilkerson and Lucy Jones, she and her nine siblings spent their early years in Selma, Alabama. She later lived and worked in Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, before returning to her native Alabama in the early 1960s.
In the 2014 movie Selma, talk show host and Actress Oprah Winfrey portrays Annie Lee Cooper.