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N.J. town’s first Black councilman, a ‘trailblazer,’ dies at 82
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
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Fred Bost, a longtime community organizer and local politician died Sunday, at 82, family told NJ Advance Media.
He was the first Black councilman in Irvington, according to the township, where his two terms came twenty years apart one beginning in 1980, the other in 2000.
Wednesday, Irvington mayor Tony Vauss called Bost a local pioneer.
“He was sort of the trailblazer of Black elected officials here in this community,” Vauss said.
From his youth, Bost was involved in social activism, attending the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, according to family.