The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. February 9, 2012 Civil Rights Activist Patricia Stephens Due Dies at 72 ------------------------------------------------------- The civil rights activist Dr. Patricia Stephens Due has died at the age of 72. Stephens took part in one of the civil rights movement's first-ever "jail ins" when she and four others were arrested for sitting at a Woolworth lunch counter in Tallahassee, Florida. .