Dr. A Lenora Taitt-Mugubane

Community Spotlight: Dr. A Lenora Taitt-Mugubane

Dr. A. Lenora Taitt-Magubane is a participant in the FREEDOM RIDERS Community Engagement Campaign Speakers Bureau. She became involved in the civil rights movement while attending Spelman College where she joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In March of 1960, she participated in a sit-in with a group of students and faculty at a performance of the musical “My Fair Lady”, held at the segregated Atlanta Municipal Auditorium. Two weeks later Dr. Magubane was arrested at a lunch counter sit-in with 77 other students and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As a result, she spent 15 days in jail. In December 1961, she became one of the 11 Albany, Georgia Freedom Riders who tested interstate travel on a train from Atlanta, GA. Once again, she and her fellow Freedom Riders were arrested and spent two weeks in jail.

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