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Merrill Pittman Cooper, 101, was awarded an honorary high school diploma last month. He was one of the first Black trolley drivers in Philadelphia and a prominent union leader in the city. Cooper dropped out of Storer College in his native West Virginia after this junior because his single mother, who was working as a live-in maid, couldn't afford to pay his last year of tuition.