Funeral arrangements are pending for Cincinnati civil rights leader Marian Spencer.
The former vice mayor and NAACP leader died yesterday at the age of 99. Spencer led the fight to desegregate Coney Island in the 1950s before becoming the first African-American woman elected to Cincinnati City Council in the 1980s. She represented the Ohio Democratic Party at their 1984 and 1988 national conventions. Other notable organizations Spencer worked with included the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Ohio Advisory Board, Housing Opportunities Made Equal, Planned Parenthood, and the Cincinnati Human Services Task Force.