Those We've Lost: Civil Rights
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Wendell Campbell - Prominent Chicago-based architect Wendell Campbell, a founder of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and served as the group's first president, becoming a leading voice in advocating diversity in architecture, died of natural causes. He was 81.
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Johnnie Carr - Johnnie Carr, who joined her childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil rights activism up to her final days, died at 97.
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J.L. Chestnut - J.L. Chestnut, a prominent author during the Civil Rights Movement and the first Black attorney in Selma, Ala. Died of kidney failure. He was 77.
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Zelma Henderson - Zelma Henderson, a Kansas beautician and last surviving plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the landmark federal desegregation case of 1954, died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 88.
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Imam W. Deen Mohammed - Imam W. Deen Mohammed, the rebellious son of the late Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad who broke from Black Nationalism and guided his followers toward mainstream Islam, died of heart disease and complications from diabetes. He was 74.
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