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Movement">Civil Rights Movement</a>, a professional nursing educator and <a href="/wiki/US_Air_Force_Reserve" class="mw-redirect" title="US Air Force Reserve">US Air Force Reserve</a> officer. She is best known for her leading role in the integration of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southern_Mississippi" title="University of Southern Mississippi">University of Southern Mississippi</a> (Hattiesburg) in 1965, which was peaceful as opposed to the <a href="/wiki/Ole_Miss_riot_of_1962" title="Ole Miss riot of 1962">violent riot</a> triggered by white racism after the enrollment of <a href="/wiki/James_Meredith" title="James Meredith">James Meredith</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Mississippi" title="University of Mississippi">University of Mississippi</a> (Oxford) in 1962. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Raylawni_Branch&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She was raised in Hattiesburg, Prentiss, and <a href="/wiki/Mount_Carmel,_Mississippi" title="Mount Carmel, Mississippi">Mount Carmel</a>, Mississippi, and in <a href="/wiki/Chicago,_Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago, Illinois">Chicago, Illinois</a>. When her family moved from Hattiesburg to Chicago, they were homeless two or three times, living in a park. She does not have good memories about living in the North. She went to schools that were predominantly white where the teacher never spoke to her.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archives_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She was again homeless in Chicago after the family lost its home over her father's legal problems. After her father died in the Cook County Jail in 1955, the family returned to Mississippi.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the time she was graduated from the eighth grade, she had moved eleven times and been in eight schools. Back in Mississippi, Branch attended <a href="/wiki/Hattiesburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Hattiesburg">Hattiesburg</a>’s Royal Street (then Rowan) High School and graduated in 1959. There she learned political activism, pride, and how to work the system from Marjorie Chambers, her history teacher. She was also encouraged by listening to Dr. <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a>'s speeches on the radio.<sup id="cite_ref-archives_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wonder_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wonder-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Civil_rights_activism">Civil rights activism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Raylawni_Branch&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Civil rights activism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a teenager, she worked in a restaurant named Fat's Kitchen in Hattiesburg’s Mobile Street black business district. There she met a regular customer, <a href="/wiki/Clyde_Kennard" title="Clyde Kennard">Clyde Kennard</a>, whose tragic attempt to integrate the University of Southern Mississippi had begun in 1956 and was to play out before Branch’s young eyes. In 1959 she saw Kennard on the morning of his appointment with arch-segregationist Dr. <a href="/wiki/William_David_McCain" title="William David McCain">William David McCain</a>, president of (then) Mississippi Southern College, to discuss his enrollment application. She found Kennard the kind of person who actually believed in the goodness of man. He even had a good opinion of Dr. McCain, who was a well known racist and segregationist. He thought that he did not need any protection. Branch and others asked him to "Let someone go with you." But Kennard saw no need.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wonder_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wonder-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The meeting with McCain resulted in his arrest on false criminal charges and the beginning of a notorious miscarriage of justice which led to Kennard's early death at 36 because of bungled cancer treatment in the Mississippi prison system. After a second false arrest, Branch attended the trial and was among those who tried to get Johnny Lee Roberts, the prosecution's suborned witness, to tell the truth or flee the state. Roberts refused, fearing that the <a href="/wiki/KKK" class="mw-redirect" title="KKK">KKK</a> would harm his family left in Mississippi.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After high school graduation she tried the North again as a <a href="/wiki/Migrant_worker" title="Migrant worker">migrant worker</a> on farms in <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a>, living in little shacks with no utilities, then again returned to Mississippi.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1959 to 1965 she was a homemaker, married and had three children. When northern civil rights activists became active in Mississippi in the early 1960s with the <a href="/wiki/Delta_Ministry" title="Delta Ministry">Delta Ministry</a> and similar groups, she became very active, serving as secretary of the Forrest County <a href="/wiki/NAACP" title="NAACP">NAACP</a> and a member of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Federated_Organizations" title="Council of Federated Organizations">Council of Federated Organizations</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee" title="Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee">Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference" title="Southern Christian Leadership Conference">Southern Christian Leadership Conference</a>. She participated in several activities, including the August 28, 1963 <a href="/wiki/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom" title="March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom">March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom</a> at which she was one of the 250,000 to hear Dr. <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> gave his "<a href="/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream" title="I Have a Dream">I Have a Dream</a>" speech.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archives_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She integrated the <a href="/wiki/Greyhound_Lines" title="Greyhound Lines">Greyhound Lines</a> and <a href="/wiki/Trailways_Transportation_System" title="Trailways Transportation System">Trailways Transportation System</a> bus stations in Hattiesburg, and was the first African American ever hired at the local Big Yank clothing factory. She also became the first African American ever offered a position as a switchboard operator at the local telephone company.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archives_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wonder_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wonder-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the NAACP she knew well people such as <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Henry_(politician)" title="Aaron Henry (politician)">Aaron Henry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Evers" title="Charles Evers">Charles Evers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Medgar_Evers" title="Medgar Evers">Medgar Evers</a>. The night Medgar Evers was assassinated, June 12, 1963, she went to Jackson and sat with the widow <a href="/wiki/Myrlie_Evers-Williams" title="Myrlie Evers-Williams">Myrlie Evers-Williams</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1965, at age twenty-four, Branch was Secretary of the Forrest County, Mississippi NAACP when it recruited her to integrate the last major holdout of the Mississippi university system, the University of Southern Mississippi. The NAACP offered to pay her tuition but not living expenses – a factor which led to her decision to withdraw after the first year. On September 6, 1965, she (then Raylawni Young) and eighteen-year-old Hattiesburg native Elaine Armstrong became the first African American students at Mississippi Southern.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archives_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wonder_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wonder-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the fall of 1965 both <a href="/wiki/Ole_Miss" class="mw-redirect" title="Ole Miss">Ole Miss</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_State_University" title="Mississippi State University">Mississippi State University</a> had been integrated – the former violently, the latter peacefully. University of Southern Mississippi leaders, such as President William David McCain, had come to realize that the battle to maintain segregation was lost. Therefore, they made extensive confidential plans for the admission and attendance of Branch and Armstrong. A faculty guardian and tutor was secretly appointed for each. The same campus police department which had attempted to railroad Kennard to prison when he attempted to enroll, now had very strict orders to prevent or quickly stop any incident involving the two black students. Student athletic, fraternity, and political leaders were recruited to keep the calm and protect the university from such bad publicity Ole Miss had suffered from its reaction to <a href="/wiki/James_Meredith" title="James Meredith">James Meredith</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archives_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a result, Branch had only one minor negative experience in her year at the university. </p><p>She majored in Pre-Medicine and had a work-study job on campus in the biology department. The two women attended classes accompanied by six bodyguards, one of them a local policeman who had once violently attacked her in a civil rights confrontation. The university administration appointed Dr. Geoffrey Fish, an oceanographer who taught biology as her guardian and tutor. Fish took a genuine interest in both women, gave them advice and jobs in work-study. He was very kind, listened to them, was like father figure to them.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Today, Branch says that she was treated just like everybody else, and that the poor grades she earned were because of her financial and family situation and that, because of the poor, substandard segregated high school education she had received, she spoke a substandard English.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archives_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Attending the university was very, very hard on her. At this time (September 1965) she had three young children, aged three, five, and six, to care for. Her first husband had mental illness and wouldn't allow her to study at night. The NAACP paid my tuition, but no money to live on. She did earn $80 weekly from the student job and received minimal help from the <a href="/wiki/Delta_Ministry" title="Delta Ministry">Delta Ministry</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Vernon_Dahmer" title="Vernon Dahmer">Vernon Dahmer</a>, and similar sources.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archives_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wonder_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wonder-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She was well acquainted with civil rights martyr <a href="/wiki/Vernon_Dahmer" title="Vernon Dahmer">Vernon Dahmer</a>, working with him in the NAACP and voter registration. </p><p>From the early 1960s she often attended meetings at Dahmer's house where his wife Ellie would watch the road for danger from the KKK while they met. Dahmer had been active in defense of Kennard during his struggle with <a href="/wiki/William_David_McCain" title="William David McCain">William David McCain</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_State_Sovereignty_Commission" title="Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission">Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission</a> over Kennard's attempt to enter the University of Southern Mississippi and he was equally supportive of Branch's effort. In January 1966, on the evening before Dahmer's home was firebombed by the KKK, he had sent to her boxes of groceries to help feed her family.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After separating from her husband in 1966, Branch left Mississippi for New York, where she had a scholarship to study nursing at St. John's Episcopal School of Nursing. While in the North for school she was very active in the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Vietnam_War_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Vietnam War movement">Anti-Vietnam War movement</a>. October 21, 1967, she was among the 35,000 anti-war protesters organized by the <a href="/wiki/National_Mobilization_Committee_to_End_the_War_in_Vietnam" title="National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam">National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam</a>, gathered for a demonstration at the Defense Department, called the "March on <a href="/wiki/The_Pentagon" title="The Pentagon">The Pentagon</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archives_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She received her bachelor's degree in Nursing from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Miami" title="University of Miami">University of Miami</a> in 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archives_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Having joined the Air Force reserves in 1975, she rose to <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_colonel" title="Lieutenant colonel">lieutenant colonel</a> assigned to <a href="/wiki/Keesler_Air_Force_Base" title="Keesler Air Force Base">Keesler Air Force Base</a>, and stationed at <a href="/wiki/Lowry_Air_Force_Base" title="Lowry Air Force Base">Lowry Air Force Base</a> in Denver, Colorado. In the Air Force she has been on flying status, been a chief nurse, been the director of an operating room, and assistant director.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archives_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wonder_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wonder-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Branch returned to Hattiesburg in 1987, and is very glad that she did. The next year she enrolled in a Master's program at University of Southern Mississippi. She received her master's degree in Community Health Nursing, with a minor in Education, in 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archives_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Branch was Instructor of associate degree Nursing at <a href="/wiki/Pearl_River_Community_College" title="Pearl River Community College">Pearl River Community College</a><sup id="cite_ref-archives_2-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archives-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Nurse Coordinator, <a href="/wiki/American_Red_Cross" title="American Red Cross">American Red Cross</a> of South Central Mississippi. In March 2004 she retired from Instructor of Nursing at the University of Southern Mississippi.<sup id="cite_ref-First_1-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2003 she ran for the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_State_Senate" title="Mississippi State Senate">Mississippi State Senate</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-report_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-report-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Raylawni_Branch&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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