Sybil Haydel Morial Was Matriarch to an Entire City, the Steel in the Spine of the Civil Rights Movement

The Kansas City Globe e-Edition
**FILE** Sybil Haydel Morial (Courtesy of nul.org)
**FILE** Sybil Haydel Morial (Courtesy of nul.org)

“Though not tall in stature, Sybil Haydel Morial was a tower of grace, kindness, dignity and strength who inspired generations of servant leaders. For the past three decades, she was the matriarch of New Orleans politics. … Sybil was just as tenacious and just as fearless, but in a quiet yet iron-willed way — the epitome of a Steel Magnolia.” — Clancy DuBos 

New Orleans has lost its matriarch.