Virginia Foster Durr, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Civil rights activist
Date of Birth: 06-Aug-1903
Date of Death: 24-Feb-1999
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Virginia Foster Durr
- Virginia Foster Durr (August 6, 1903 – February 24, 1999) was an American white civil rights activist and lobbyist.
- She was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1903 to Dr.
- Sterling Foster, an Alabama Presbyterian minister, and Ann Patterson Foster.
- At 22 she married lawyer Clifford Durr, with whom she had 5 children, one of whom died in infancy.
- Durr was a close friend of Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt, and was sister-in-law (through her sister's marriage) of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who sat on many crucial civil rights cases.
- Her circle of friends extended to Alger Hiss.
- She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 2006.
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