When Juanita Jackson Mitchell died in 1992 at the age of 79, she was praised as one Maryland’s heroines and the matriarch of a family whose name became synonymous with civil rights causes.

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When Juanita Jackson Mitchell died in 1992 at the age of 79, she was praised as one Maryland’s heroines and the matriarch of a family whose name became synonymous with civil rights causes.
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