Career
In 1967, Carr became President of the Montgomery Improvement Association, succeeding the Review Martin Luther King, Junior. Carr held this office until she died.
According to Morris Dees, one of three founders of Montgomery"s Southern Poverty Law Center, "Johnnie Carr is one of the three major icons of the Civil Rights Movement: Doctor King, Rosa Parks and Johnnie Carr.
I think ultimately, when the final history books are written, she"ll be one of the few people remembered for that terrific movement."
Civil Rights pioneer and United States. Representative John Lewis, Doctorate-Georgia., said, "Mistress Carr must be looked on as one of the founders of a new America because she was there with Rosa Parks, East.D. Nixon, Martin Luther King Junior. and so many others"
This core of activists, who canvassed neighborhoods, raised money, sent petitions and postcards to the governor and attorney general of Alabama, later became part of the movement that supported Martin Luther King Junior.
Carr died of a massive stroke at the age of 97.