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Ben Jealous: The history they fear is the truth we carry

Summary by New Pittsburgh Courier
The last living link of my family’s story of origin in antebellum Southern Virginia died at age 105 a few years ago.  My grandmother, Mamie Todd, was born in 1916. Her grandparents were born into slavery. She fought Jim Crow. She stood up for Black teachers and students in a segregated school system in which she taught in her early career. She supported my mom when, at 12, she signed on as a named plaintiff in one of the feeder cases to Brown v.…
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New Pittsburgh Courier broke the news in Pittsburgh, United States on Sunday, April 20, 2025.
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