“Comment on Hurley’s Appearance”

Excerpt from Jet magazine article titled "Most Militant Negro Woman in the South" written about Ruby Hurley. 

The comment on Hurley’s appearance is a sign of how controversial she was during her leadership position as Southeastern Regional Director of the NAACP. Hurley was described as tall and attractive as she led the NAACP’s “growing army of some 35,000 members in the Southeast region.” Hurley’s womanist moral agency can be displayed as being called the “Most Negro Women in the South,” because of her tenacious efforts to help aid in the mobilization of people of color. She had the toughest job because not only was she a woman thriving in a predominately male organization; she was a Black woman in society during a time when racial tensions were high, and segregation was prevalent.