Lugenia Burns Hope, née Burns (Feb 19, 1871, St. Louis, Missouri – Aug 14, 1947, Nashville, Tennessee) was a social reformer whose Neighborhood Union and other community service organizations improved the quality of life for blacks in Atlanta, Georgia, and served as a model for the future Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her youth, Lugenia Hope worked for various charitable organizations, inspiring a life-long interest in social outreach work. Wikipedia
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Lugenia Burns Hope was one of the most effective social reformers in the South. She brought about change in her own lifetime and she planted seeds that bore fruit in the Civil Rights Movement and continue to influence President Carter's Atlanta Project t www.gawomen.org/honorees/long/hopel_long.htm
