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  • This is something NME editor Krissi Murison credits her success to.

    How Adele conquered the world 2011

  • Margaret Ada "Peg" Samson-Tipson Murison Wright, an artist and activist who volunteered to drive a student past phalanxes of raging racists when New Orleans 'public schools were being desegregated, died Thursday of respiratory failure at her New Orleans home.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • "Protesters threw rocks at the car, the windows were broken, and people tried to run her down," Murison said.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Consider this: according to the obit, Murison also attempted to stop "corruption and gambling in Jefferson Parish".

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • In short, after battling white racist mobs who tried to intimidate and kill her, Peg Murison decided to interfere with Carlos Marcello's business, when he was the most powerful mob boss in the United States.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • In addition to hate mail and phone and bomb threats, a cross was burned in the family's yard, Murison said.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Despite such intimidation, she kept driving the young girl, Yolanda Gabrielle, to school until her family gave up and left town, Murison said.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • While federal marshals protected black children who were integrating what had been all-white schools, no guards accompanied Mrs. Wright when she drove the last white student to William Frantz Elementary School, which had been made all-black in an attempt to thwart integration, said her son Scott Murison.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Marty Rojas and Justine Murison always keep me honest when I think I understand anything about early

    Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

  • Murison said, all sorrow was bad, as it was murmuring against the dispensations of

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

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