About Ethel Mae Mathews
Lived 1932 – 2005 (aged 72–73). Ethel Mae Mathews was an activist.
Ethel Mae Mathews (also spelled Ethel Mae Matthews; – March 14, 2005) was an American welfare rights and tenants' rights activist and community organizer in Atlanta, Georgia. She founded, and was the first president of, the Atlanta Welfare Rights Organization and was a leading figure in welfare-rights organizing centered on Emmaus House in the Peoplestown neighborhood of Atlanta.
Life and activism Mathews was born in Loachapoka, Alabama and moved to Atlanta in 1950, where she raised four children.
Death Mathews died of heart failure at her home in Atlanta on March 14, 2005, aged 72.
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