| Summary: | Activist and archivist Gwendolyn Marie Patton was born on October 14, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from George Washington Carver High School in 1961, and went on to attend Tuskegee Institute, earning her B.A. degree in English and history in 1966. Patton earned her M.A. degree in English from Antioch University in 1972, her Ph.D. (ABD) degree from Union Graduate University Consortium, and her LL.D. degree from the Interdenominational Institute of Theology. She served as director of the Academic Advising Center at Alabama State University, and founded not only the National Anti-War Anti-Draft Union against the war in Vietnam in 1969, but also the National Association of Black Students, and the New Alabama New South Coalition. Patton was selected as an Aspen Institute Fellow, and also wrote and published The Insurgent Memories in 1981. In 1992, she became an archivist at Trenholm State Technical College in Montgomery, Alabama.
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