Montgomery County civil rights leader dies - Maryland Schools Insider - The Washington Post

Montgomery County civil rights leader dies - Maryland Schools Insider - The Washington Post: Roscoe R. Nix, a Montgomery County civil rights leader who used his political influence and confrontational style to draw attention to racial inequities in one of the region’s most affluent jurisdictions, died Jan. 4 at a hospital in Riverdale, Ga. He was 90.

Mr. Nix, whose civil rights activism spanned more than half a century, said in a 1980s profile in The Washington Post that his roots in the Deep South defined his outlook on race relations.