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This photo provided by Deborah Menkart shows Dorie Ladner at the African American Civil War Memorial Museum, May 16, 2015, in Washington. Ladner, a longtime fighter for freedom and equality in her home state of Mississippi with contributions to the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and voter registration drives, has died, her family confirmed. “My beloved sister, Dorie Ladner, died peacefully on Monday, March 11, 2024,” her younger sister, Joyce Ladner, wrote on Facebook. (Deborah Menkart via AP)
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