Rev. Dr. Willie T. Barrow

CTL-E-1403 · Person · unspecified

Verified evidence grade of this record

Ordained minister and Chicago civil rights leader ('The Little Warrior'); SCLC field organizer; co-founder of Operation Breadbasket; first woman executive director/CEO of Operation PUSH and later chairman/CEO of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from SCI-004; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-SCI-004:willie-t-barrow; source research type(s): leader. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

The HistoryMakers, finding aid (A1999_001); Congressional Record, Senate, Vol. 161 (2015), tribute remarks (primary source)
The HistoryMakers, finding aid (A1999_001); Congressional Record, Senate, Vol. 161 (2015) (primary source)
The HistoryMakers, finding aid (A1999_001); NPR Illinois obituary (primary source)
Citizen Newspaper Group; Wikipedia; Congressional Record, Senate, Vol. 161 (2015)
NPR Illinois; Citizen Newspaper Group; Congressional Record, Senate, Vol. 161 (2015)

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