ACORN leader Beulah LaBostrie fought for fairness for all people

ACORN leader Beulah LaBostrie fought for fairness for all people

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. Beulah Kenny LaBostrie never had to raise her voice.  Guided by her moral compass, she could “dress down many politicians and scores of others” who stood in the way of fairness, recalled Wade Rathke, a founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).  Born in 1919 in New Orleans, LaBostrie was a longtime president of ACORN, which was f…