DETROIT (AP) — Civil rights activist and Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act co-author Daisy Elliott has died.
The James H. Cole Home for Funerals in Detroit says on its website that Elliott died Tuesday at age 98.
The Detroit Democrat spent nearly two decades in the state House and cosponsored the 1976 law that banned discrimination in employment and housing in Michigan.
Republican state Rep. Mel Larsen is the legislation’s other author.
Badriyyah Sabree says in a statement their family hopes her grandmother’s life “serves as an example to people around the world to selflessly work to ensure all people are provided rights to full legal, social, and economic equality.”
Visitation is noon to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Funeral services are 11 a.m. Monday at People’s Community Church in Detroit.
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