Andrew Lee Marrisett became one of the first paid staff members for the SCLC in 1963 in Birmingham.
Updated:Andrew Marrisett, one of the first paid field staffers in Birmingham for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, did not attend the March on Washington himself on Aug. 28, 1963, but organized transportation for others who wanted to go. Marrisett, of Birmingham, died on Aug. 14. He was 87.A civil rights activist who organized bus and car rides from Birmingham to the March on Washington 60 years ago has died.
“Any way you could get there,” Marrisett said a decade ago. “Each neighborhood might have been doing its own thing and you wouldn’t know about it.” Marrisett is mentioned in some civil rights histories, but much of what he knew about King and the Birmingham movement died with him.
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