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((Short description|American activist))
'''Elizabeth Harden Gilmore''' (1909-1986) was a business leader and [[civil rights]] advocate.<ref name="nrhp">((cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form|url=http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/kanawha/88001462.pdf|accessdate=3 January 2015))</ref>

She was the first woman to be licensed as an [[assistant funeral director]] in [[Kanawha County, West Virginia]] on October 28, 1938, and as a funeral director on November 12, 1940.<ref>((Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Board of Funeral Service Examiners Records|url=http://www.wvculture.org/history/collections/ar/ar1963.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904165836/http://www.wvculture.org:80/history/collections/ar/ar1963.html |archive-date=2019-09-04 |access-date=2020-09-24|website=www.wvculture.org))</ref> She opened the [[Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House|Harden and Harden Funeral Home]] in 1947 (now listed on the National Register of Historic Places).<ref name="nrhp"/><ref name=nps>((cite web|title=Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/wv1.htm|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=3 January 2015))</ref>

She pioneered efforts to [[School integration in the United States|integrate]] [[West Virginia]]'s schools, housing, and public accommodations and to pass [[civil rights]] legislation enforcing such integration. In the early 1950s, before the [[Brown v. Board of Education]] decision mandating school desegregation, Gilmore formed a women's club which opened [[Charleston, West Virginia|Charleston]]'s first integrated day care center. At about the same time, she succeeded in getting her black [[Girl Scouts of the USA]] troop admitted to [[Camp Anne Bailey]] near the mountain town of [[Lewisburg, West Virginia|Lewisburg]]. The two Girl Scouts that she sponsored to integrate Camp Anne Bailey were Deloris Foster and Linda Stillwell((Citation needed|reason=interesting but we do need a reliable source, has anyone written about it?|date=March 2020)). Her Girl Scout Troop, 230 was, also, the first black troop to graduate from Girl Scouting in West Virginia.  After co-founding the local chapter of the [[Congress of Racial Equality]] (CORE) in 1958, she led CORE in a successful one-year-long sit-in campaign at a local department store called The Diamond.<ref name="nrhp"/><ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.democraticunderground.com/1187426|title=Mrs. Gilmore's Defining Black History|date=Feb 12, 2012|website=Democratic Underground.com))</ref>

In the 1960s, Gilmore served on the [[Kanawha Valley]] Council of Human Relations, where she participated in forums on racial differences and where she helped black renters, displaced by a new interstate highway, find housing. Her successful push to amend the 1961 state civil rights law won her a seat on the powerful higher-education Board of Regents. Gilmore was the first [[African American]] to receive such an honor. She stayed on the Board from 1969 to the late 1970s, serving one term as vice-president and one term as president. Her tireless commitment to civil and [[human rights]] did not end there. She was also involved with the [[U.S. Commission on Civil Rights]] and community education and welfare committees.

==References==
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