 Winonah Myers

Margaret Winonah Beamer Myers (September 10, 1941 – March 16, 2018) was an American political activist, who, in 1961 at the age of 19, became a Freedom Rider.Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions "Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia" (1946) and "Boynton v. Virginia" (1960).