Santa Rosa civic leader, pastor and activist Curtis Byrd dies at 67 after long illness
His community service included his work as a member of the Santa Rosa Planning Commission and the Mayor’s Gang Task Force Policy Team.
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His community service included his work as a member of the Santa Rosa Planning Commission and the Mayor’s Gang Task Force Policy Team.
An early advocate of civilian law enforcement oversight, Byrd was a longtime leader in the local NAACP chapter, helped found the Commission on the Status of Women and what is now Community Action Partnership, and for decades ran the Byrd Foundation, which helps low income local college students.
Civil rights leader Ann Gray Byrd, who grew up in Santa Rosa, is dead at the age of 86. Byrd died at her home in Santa Rosa on July 7th, after struggling
From an iconic 1962 sit-in at a Santa Rosa bar to the selection of a Black woman to be the mayor of Santa Rosa in 2022.