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Civil Rights Activist Patricia Stephens Due Dies at 72

HeadlineFeb 09, 2012

The civil rights activist Dr. Patricia Stephens Due has died at the age of 72. Stephens took part in one of the civil rights movement’s first-ever “jail ins” when she and four others were arrested for sitting at a Woolworth lunch counter in Tallahassee, Florida.

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