Sybil Haydel Morial, New Orleans Civil Rights Matriarch, Dies at 91
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 22, 2024
Through it all, Ms. Morial remained calm, “an inspiration to us all,” Mr. Morial’s executive assistant at City Hall, Anthony Mumphrey, said in an interview. “She was like a wise sister to me. She would speak, and you knew wisdom was coming from her mouth.”
After two terms in office, Mr. Morial died of a heart attack in 1989. Four years later, Ms. Morial was herself urged to run for mayor; pollsters assured her that she would win. Instead, she deferred to her son Marc, then a Louisiana . . .
