Sylura Richardson Barron (December 25, 1900 – November 4, 1997) was an African-American political activist in San Diego, California from the 1940s into the 1990s.

[8] In 1981, she had a heart attack just before Election Day, and told a reporter from her hospital bed that it was her first time voting by absentee ballot since the 1930s.

[9] In her nineties, she was still active in community celebrations, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in San Diego in 1992.

She died on November 4, 1997, after her death she was honored by California congressman Bob Filner on the floor of the U. S. House of Representatives, for her lifetime of political engagement: "Throughout her life, Sylura fought to promote educational and business opportunities in communities that often lacked strong and determined representation," he recalled.

"Sylura was a thoughtful and eloquent promoter of a society that could step beyond divisions of race, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation.