“Now She’s a Voice for the Silent South: Troubleshooter was ‘Outsider’”

Newspaper Article about Ruby Hurley's activism 

This newspaper article about Ruby Hurley mentions the work Hurley accomplished as the Southeastern Region Director of the NAACP. “As director of NAACP activities in the Deep South since 1951, Mrs. Hurley has helped form scores of NAACP branches, investigated several lynchings, helped set in motion some of the major protest campaigns like the Montgomery Bus Boycott and trained many of her male colleagues.” This document not only listed Hurley’s womanist moral agency in relation to the work she did for the NAACP but also her thoughts on activism, respectability politics and commitment to social justice.  This document also supports the entry titled “The Civil Rights Movement" in the Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America which states “As regional director, Hurley worked with various NAACP desegregation efforts and, through her office, collaborated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in other movement activity.” Given these statements about Hurley’s work, it is clear that Hurley engaged with social discourse in order to improve the condition of the Black community while operating in a leadership position in the NAACP thus broadening her womanist moral agency. Also, it is clear that Hurley’s womanist moral agency was not limited to just supporting the Civil Rights Movement on a local level. Hurley participated on a national level which was rare for women of color during her era.