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Former Harrisburg NAACP leader Paula Rideout-Harris dies at 68
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
Posted Mar 08, 2021
Paula Rideout-Harris, former president of the Harrisburg Branch of NAACP, died Saturday at her home in Lower Paxton Township.PennLive files
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Her daughter, Rogette Harris, said her mother had been dealing with a kidney disease for several years.
Harris, a lifelong Harrisburg resident, rose to public prominence in the area with her election as president of the regional NAACP branch in 2000.
Her installation as president coincided with the arrest and prosecution of a state House member from Bucks County, Rep. Thomas Druce, for leaving the scene of a July 1999 accident on Cameron Street that left a Harrisburg man named Kenneth Cains dead. ....

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