Juliette Hampton Morgan (February 21, 1914 – July 16, 1957) was a librarian and civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama.

As a librarian she often spoke out against the acts of injustice she witnessed against African-Americans by writing letters to the Montgomery Advertiser, the local newspaper.

She was castigated by the community for her racial views and was targeted by segregationists who broke her windows and burned a cross in her front yard.

In 1934 Morgan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa with a degree in both English literature and political science.

She joined Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal Club, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, and the Alabama Council on Human Relations (of which she was one of the few white members).

[4] She often wrote in to the local newspaper, the Montgomery Advertiser, in support of federal anti-lynching laws and to abolish the poll tax.

Morgan's first public statements regarding social justice issues came in 1932 when she spoke out in defense of motherhood and special training for women such as home economics classes, and extended her support for creating a federal department of child welfare.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat and move to the back of a Montgomery city bus.

Eleven days later, on December 12, 1955, Morgan wrote another letter to the editor of the Montgomery Advertiser in support of Ms.

[3]Morgan began to receive hate mail and threatening phone calls in retaliation for expressing her racial views.

There he spoke out against racial injustice and publicly blamed the White Citizens' Council for the increase in violence seen in the community over the past year.

Morgan later wrote a letter of private praise directly to Boone where she stated: There are so many Southerners from various walks of life that know you are right.

Everyone who speaks as you do, who has the faith to do what he believes right in scorn of the consequences, does great good in preparing the way for a happier and more equitable future for all Americans.

On the morning of July 17, 1957, Morgan’s mother found her daughter dead; next to her lay an empty bottle of sleeping pills.

Martin Luther King Jr. later wrote about Morgan’s heroic struggle and the price she paid in his book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.