Obit: Johnnie Carr (US Civil Rights Activist)

Subject: Obit: Johnnie Carr (US Civil Rights Activist)
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 07:20 PM

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil rights activism up to her final days, has died. She was 97. Carr died Friday night, said Baptist Health hospital spokeswoman Melody Ragland. She had been hospitalized after a stroke Feb. 11.