Helena Hicks, civil rights advocate who helped desegregate Read's lunch counter, dies

Helena Hicks, a civil rights advocate who led a 1950s protest to desegregate the old Read’s drug store lunch counter, died of pneumonia complicated by Lewy body dementia Thursday at the William L. and Victorine Q. Adams Gilchrist Center Baltimore. She was 88 and lived in Northwest Baltimore. “We think of our historic personalities primarily as male figures but it really was our amazing women ...

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