Massachusetts political figure; campaign worker, John F. Kennedy's Senate campaign (1952); president, New England Regional Conference, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (1957-1960).
Oral History Interview (1979): Batson completed one interview for the John F. Kennedy Library on 1/24/1979, where she comments upon John F. Kennedy's senate and presidential campaigns, disappointment over President Kennedy's civil rights record, and the 1962 Senate race between Edward Moore Kennedy and Edward J. McCormack, Jr., among other issues.