JULIETTE HAMPTON MORGAN: FROM SOCIALITE TO SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Alabama Heritage, Summer 2004 by Stanton, Mary

JULIElTE MORGAN, LIKE MANY BLACKS and whites who fought for civil rights, took seriously the ethic of "liberty and justice for all." She is part of a long tradition of Americans of all backgrounds who have been called naive, subversive, radical, even crazy, because they refused to treat that ethic as a figure of speech.

Those who knew Morgan understood her cause, including a co-worker who quoted from social critic Philip Wylie at her funeral: "I have made the world some small bit better in my fashion; I have given you my life as an imperfect example; pursue and enhance the best of me, for you are now in my stead."