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Alma Jean Billingslea

1946–

United States

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Alma Jean Billingslea (born 1946) is an American scholar and teacher, and a veteran of the civil rights movement. Billingslea was born in Albany, Georgia, but grew up in Orange, New Jersey, where she was one of the first African American students to desegregate the Orange public school system. From 1967 to 1971, she worked as a field staff member for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the organization founded by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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