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Shirley McRae Barnes is a retired public relations consultant and active participant in civic groups in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is a graduate of Long Island University. Barnes and her husband, Dr. Milton H. Barnes, were active in the development and growth of Greensboro's L. Richardson Memorial Hospital. Dr. Barnes, who died in 1974, was a dentist, as was his father, Dr. Boise Winslow Barnes, and he was, a plaintiff in the case of Simkins v. Moses Cone Hospital (1963), the landmark Supreme Court decision that desegregated hospitals throughout the South. Dr. and Mrs. Barnes moved into the Clinton Hills neighborhood in the early 1960s and raised their daughter, Dr. Deborah H. Barnes (see additional collection) and son, Milton W. (Billy) Barnes, in homes on Cambridge Avenue and later on Lakeland Road. Shirley M. Barnes married writer and activist Hal Sieber in 1980.