Tal Rutledge
American civil rights activist
About Tal Rutledge
Lived 1929 – 2020 (aged 90–91).
Talmadge Rutledge (1929 – April 16, 2020) was an American civil rights activist who lived in Clearwater, Florida. He was the first president of the NAACP's Clearwater branch. His brother Charles was also a businessman and was a party to the lawsuit that precipitated the desegregation of Pinellas County Schools.
At one point he found three bullet holes in his home. He owned a laundromat and dry cleaning establishment.
In 1968, he was convicted and fined $35 for obstructing a school bus during a desegregation demonstration. The national president of the NAACP, Kivie Kaplan, attended the trial. Municipal Court judge Roland Fox presided.
He opposed the closing of a community center named for Martin Luther King Jr. in the North Greenwood section of Clearwater.
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American civil rights activist
When was Tal Rutledge born?
Tal Rutledge was born in 1929.
When did Tal Rutledge die?
Tal Rutledge died on 16 April 2020.
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