Batson, Ruth (3 August 1921–28 October 2003), educator, community organizer, and civil right activist, was born Ruth Marion Watson in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, to Jamaican immigrants Joel Watson and Cassandra Buchanan. Growing up, she experienced and observed racial discrimination all around Boston. Her propensity to challenge these injustices came from her early exposure to activism. She and her brother were raised mostly by her mother, a health-care worker and a staunch follower of Jamaican political activist and Black nationalist ...
