Nellie Gray

Activist

Birthday June 24, 1924

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Texas

DEATH DATE Aug 13, 2012 (88)

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About

Anti-abortion activist. She founded a yearly pro-life event called the March for Life in reaction to the Roe V Wade case, which made abortion legal.

Before Fame

After serving during World War II in the Women's Army Corps, she attended Georgetown University Law School.

Trivia

Though not raised as a Roman Catholic, she later converted to the faith.

Family Life

She grew up in Big Spring, Texas and later relocated to Washington, D.C.

Associated With

Thurgood Marshall was serving as an associate Supreme Court justice during the famous Roe V Wade case.