Virginia McLaurin (March 12, 1909 – November 14, 2022) was an American community volunteer and supercentenarian. A resident of Washington, D.C., she gained national attention after a video of her dancing with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama went viral, recorded during an invited visit to the White House to be awarded a service medal on February 18, 2016, during annual Black History Month.
Was Virginia McLaurin Married?
She would walk 10 miles to school, on one pair of shoes a year, she said. And she dropped out when she was in the eighth grade to get married.
Her first husband died in a bar fight over money, and she would marry twice more, Ms. Menkart said.
Ms. McLaurin moved to Washington around 1939 as part of the Great Migration of millions of Black people from the American South to Northern, Midwestern and Western states that had begun in the 1910s. She worked in a laundry and at a shipyard, among other places.