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Helena Hicks, civil rights crusader who countered segregation with sit-ins, dies at 88
Helena Hicks was widely known as a lead organizer of Morgan State University students who participated in lunch counter sit-ins that desegregated Read’s Drug Stores in 1955. She died this month at age 88.
Public memorial service set to celebrate Johns Hopkins Black studies scholar
Shani Mott, a scholar of Africana studies at the Johns Hopkins University, died in March. A celebration to commemorate her life will be held Sunday.
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