Oprah Winfrey, and Alice Walker. In 1994 Winson testified on behalf of Mississippi's poor citizens before President Bill Clinton's Health Reform Task Force Committee in Washington, D.C. Autobiography Hudson published her autobiography in 2002 as Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). It gives Winson Hudson's story in her own words, supplemented with historical information at the start of each chapter by Constance W. Curry; it includes a foreword by Derrick Bell. (Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens speaks of helping Winson edit "The Autobiography of Mrs. Winson Hudson, a Black Woman of Mississippi".) Winson recalls the struggle of her early days as an activist: "It was a lonely walk", due to open hostility from the white community, as well as opposition from black citizens. Annie Maude, Winson's daughter, had two sons, Donovan and Kempton Horton. Winson had a great-grandson, Ryan and two great-granddaughters, Tyler and Lauren from her sons and their wives, Dionne and Lisa. Notes References Hudson, W. (2002). Mississippi Harmony : memoirs of a freedom fighter (1st ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. External links An with John Rachal for the Mississippi Oral History Program of The University of Southern Mississippi Obituary A Period Research Form by Elaine Woo, Times Staff Writer Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Winson Hudson papers, circa 1916-2004 1916 births 2004 deaths People from Rankin County, Mississippi Activists for African-American civil rights Activists from Mississippi African-American activists 20th-century African-American women