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Celebrating the life and legacy of the inspirational civil rights leader and political advisor Vernon Jordan

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John Lewis, an iconic civil rights leader and House of Representatives Member, died this past Friday after a six month battle with pancreatic cancer. “It is with inconsolable grief and enduring sadness that we announce the passing of U.S. Rep. John Lewis,” his family said in a statement. “He was honored and respected as the…

Dorothy Cotton, a civil rights leader who worked with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., has passed away at the age of 88. She had been battling illness recently and died in her retirement home in Ithaca, New York on Sunday, June 10, 2018. Cotton first met King in 1960 when he was preaching at her…
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