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| birth_place = Burton, Texas, U.S. | baptised = | disappeared_date = | disappeared_place = | disappeared_status = | death_date = March 12, 2015 (aged 90) | death_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | death_cause = Respiratory failure | body_discovered = | resting_place = Oak Woods Cemetery Chicago, Illinois | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = | residence = | nationality = | other_names = Rev. Willie Barrow Willie B. Barrow Willie T. Barrow Willie B. Taplin Barrow Little Warrior Princess of Protest The High Priestess of Protest | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = Warner Pacific Theological Seminary Moody Bible Institute Central Conservatory of Music University of Monrovia | alma_mater = | occupation = Minister | years_active = 1935–2015 | era = | employer = | organization = Rainbow/PUSH Chicago, Illinois | agent = | known_for = Civil rights activism, Operation PUSH leadership | notable_works = ''How to Get Married and Stay Married'' (book; 2004) | style = | home_town = | salary = | net_worth = | height = | weight = | television = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | religion = | denomination = | criminal_charge = | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = (his death) | partner = | parents = | relatives = | callsign = | awards = | children = Keith Barrow (b. 1954–83) | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | website = | footnotes = }} Willie Beatrice Barrow (née Taplin; December 7, 1924 – March 12, 2015) was an American civil rights activist and minister. She was the co-founder of Operation PUSH, which was named Operation Breadbasket at the time of its creation alongside Rev. Jesse Jackson. In 1984, she became the first woman executive director of a civil rights organization, serving as Push's CEO. Barrow was the godmother of President Barack Obama. ==Biography== Born Willie Beatrice Taplin in Burton, Texas, to Nelson, a minister, and Octavia Taplin, one of seven children. When she was 12, she organized a demonstration with fellow students to protest that white students were allowed to ride the bus, but black students had to walk to school. Barrow confronted the bus driver and demanded that he let her fellow students ride. When the bus driver confronted her about it she said "Y'all can kill me if you want to. But I'm tired." When Barrow turned 16, she moved to Portland, Oregon, to study at the Warner Pacific Theological Seminary (now Warner Pacific College). While still a student, Barrow and a group of black residents helped build one of the first black Churches of God in the city; she was ordained as a minister after graduation. She started working as a welder during World War II at the Kaiser Shipyards in Swan Island, Washington, where she met Clyde Barrow, whom she married in 1945 in Washington state. The couple moved to Chicago in the early 1940s, and Barrow attended the Moody Bible Institute to further her call to service. They lived on the South Side, and Barrow ran the youth choir at (Langley Avenue Church of God ). According to Barrow, she was approached by the minister to do some additional organizing for civil rights movement actions.〔 Barrow campaigned for Harold Washington who became the first Black Mayor of Chicago in 1983. In 1984 and 1988 she worked for Jesse Jackson's Presidential campaign. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Willie Barrow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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