Remembering a Civil Rights Activist

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Remembering a Civil Rights Activist

Listen Monday, Jan. 14, 2008 at 1:50 p.m. in Politics

Maryland State Senator Gwendolyn Britt (D-Prince Georges County) passed away unexpectedly this weekend. A native Washingtonian, Senator Britt spent her life fighting for equality -- in the Jim Crow South with the Freedom Riders, with her neighbors desegregating Glen Echo Park, and most recently in the Maryland General Assembly. We revisit her legacy.

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