Willye Dennis

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Willye F Clayton Dennis (b. March 14, 1926 in Jacksonville, Florida) is a librarian, civil rights activist and former Florida state legislator.

In 1978, Ms. Dennis founded Fam-Co Learning and Development Center, a non-profit child daycare center. The agency would go on to provide additional counseling services for unwed mothers and at risk teenagers. Over the years to come, Fam-Co would win national praise.

[edit] Civil Rights Activism

Ms. Dennis served as president of the Jacksonville NAACP Branch from 1994-2004. She was brought to national attention due to a bomb being sent to the headquarters addressed to her. There were also flyers distributed, which offered an award for her assassination.

[edit] Politics

In 1992, Ms. Dennis was elected as a Democrat to the Florida House of Representatives District 15 and subsequently reelected. She served as the Vice Chair of the Education K-12 Committee, on the Financial Services Committee and the Health and Human Services Appropriations Committee.