LOUISVILLE--On New Year's Day, Louisville and Kentucky said goodbye to activist Suzy Post.

In her 80's, activist Suzanne "Suzy" Kling Post was still passionate about the issues.

Quoting Post, Michael Adridge, the current director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, said "You just have to start it. You have to build a base of support. You may not be able to do everything yourself, but it's upon all of us to get something started and get justice started." Adridge added, She truly believed that through her final days."

Post was one of the first fill time staff members of the ACLU of Kentucky, and her passion covered a plethora of issues. "It started with the Vietnam War, and then Women's Rights and that led to reproductive access," said Aldridge. 

The ACLU credits Post as once of the reasons Kentucky doesn't have the strict abortion restrictions many other Heartland and Midwest states do. Adridge said Post's "biggest legacy would be the creation of the Reproductive Freedom Project in 1989. When she did that, she saw that people were trying to encroach on abortion regulations around the nation. And because she created the project in Kentucky, we've been able to keep those restrictions at bay, largely thirty years now."

Post was also integral in the integration of Louisville schools, her children the only Caucasian students named as plaintiffs in the case.

Aldridge said while her health started to go, Post stayed passionate about the issues, saying just weeks ago, she had asked how she can help out on various causes.

And while Post wasn't able to work with the younger wave of new activists, she enjoyed seeing their passion. Aldridge said Post likened the current atmosphere to that of the 1960's, and was proud to see people get involved again. 

Aldridge said, while she was an activist who shaped Kentucky, he will remember her most as a friend.