caption death_date death_place birth_place image_size nationality name birth_date known_for image article_title birth_name
fisher monroe place , brooklyn , new york , 1960 in front of her apartment building at 34 1966 new york city punxsutawney , pennsylvania 200px american bernice fisher december 8 , 1916 civil rights activist fisher , bernice 1960.jpg bernice fisher
 elsie bernice fisher
bernice fisher

bernice fisher -lrb- december 8 , 1916 , punxsutawney , pennsylvania -- may 2 , 1966 , new york city -rrb- was a civil rights activist and union organizer .
she was among the three co-founders of the congress of racial equality in 1942 in chicago , illinois .
her birth name was elsie bernice fisher , but she was called bernice .
