Ms. Dorothy Louise Bishop

Ms. Dorothy Louise Bishop was born January 24, 1943 to the late Robert Lee Bishop and Addie Mae Bishop of Starkville, Mississippi. She departed this life February 4, 2014 at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Columbus, Mississippi. She confessed Christ at an early age at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church and later joined Bethel Missionary Baptist Church where she was a member at death. Dorothy dropped out of school after completing the seventh grade because of the inequities that existed in a system that boasted of “Separate but Equal.” She began the process of learning how to survive in a hostile and racist environment at a very young age. At the age of seventeen she began her life work, under the tutelage of such notables as Mr. Amos Rice, Dr. Douglas Conner, and Dr. Morris Kinsey. Ms. Bishop was a Civil Rights Activist for more than fifty years. She served for twelve years as youth adviser for the county’s Youth NAACP chapter before becoming the main entity’s first female president in 1993. She has earned...