‘Ahead of her time’: Lucile Carter, Gainesville activist who fought for civil rights, dies at 90 - Gainesville Times

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‘Ahead of her time’: Lucile Carter, Gainesville activist who fought for civil rights, dies at 90

Lucile Fortuna Carter, a Gainesville activist who fought for civil rights, died at 90 on April 8, 2023. Photo courtesy of Little & Davenport Funeral Home.

0411OBIT - Lucile Carter — Lucile Fortuna Carter, a Gainesville activist who fought for civil rights, died at 90 on April 8, 2023. Photo courtesy of Little & Davenport Funeral Home.

Lucile Fortuna Carter, a vivacious local activist with a passion for education, nature, the arts and sports, and a forceful civil rights advocate during the desegregation of Gainesville’s public schools in the late 1960s, died Saturday, April 8.