Jean Gordon, Little Rock activist for peace and civil rights, dies at 97 | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Little Rock human rights activist Jean Gordon, whose work advocating for equality and peace began in earnest during the school segregation crisis of 1957-59 and continued through the end of the Cold War and into the new millennium, died Thursday at age 97.

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