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Gloria Fox, activist, former Mass. state rep. has died at 82
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Gloria Fox, activist, former Mass. state rep. has died at 82
In the aftermath of the Blizzard of 1978, after 27 inches of snow fell on the Boston area, shutting down businesses and schools throughout the city, the lights were on and the doors unlocked at the Roxbury Area Planning Action Committee office at the insistence of its head, Gloria Fox who remained in the office to provide assistance while most of the city remained closed.
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Saundra Graham, political pioneer in Cambridge, 81
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Saundra Graham, political pioneer in Cambridge, 81
Harvard was conducting its sedate commencement exercises in 1970 when a young community activist from a nearby section of Cambridge mounted the stage, bullhorn in hand, with 20 other protesters.
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