“Ruby Hurley Forgoes Love, Home for the NAACP Cause”

Newspaper Article about Ruby Hurley's marriage and committment to NAACP. 

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This newspaper article speaks on Hurley’s commitment to the NAACP and her womanist moral agency in choosing the NAACP over her marriage. “There is no bitterness in her voice. One year after she married, the attractive woman became national youth secretary of the NAACP. From that day, she sacrificed a home and love to give her whole heart to the NAACP.” It was courageous of Hurley to make the decisions that led to the ending of her marriage for the cause of the NAACP because during that time period, women were thought to be housewives and had little choice on careers in the public sphere. If Hurley was a man the article may not have been written because it seemed natural for a man to devote his life to his work or career, and the notion that a woman ought to support her husband while in the position of influence and leadership was a social norm. Hurley wasn’t Coretta Scott King who stood by her husband's side as he went through the struggle of being one of the faces of the Civil Rights Movement. In Hurley’s case the roles were reversed in which she needed the supportive spouse. Hurley’s sacrifice of home and love shows her commitment and determination to fighting for the Black community to gain social justice for all.