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Civil Rights activist Gene Young, who joined the movement at the age of 12, died last week in Jackson.

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Gene Young

In the last year of his life, Gene Young was a regular at the Eudora Welty Library. The civil rights activist would bring a briefcase full of newspaper clippings and …

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