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Linn County to name building for Percy and Lileah Harris
Linn County Supervisors plan to name the future Public Health and Child and Youth Development Services building the Dr. Percy and Lileah Harris Building. The plan, discussed at a county meeting, honors Cedar Rapids civil rights leader Dr. Percy Harris and pianist and activist Lileah Harris, who died earlier and three years earlier respectively. The project includes 12 conference rooms named after the Harrises’ children and aims for LEED Gold with a community-focused design opening in 2018 at 1019 Seventh St. SE, Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
Percy
Lileah Harris
Linn County
Stacey Walker
Percy Harris
Walker
Ben Rogers
Harris
Board of Supervisors
Rogers
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Dr. Percy and
Jean Oxley
Percy and
St. Luke’s Hospital
St. Luke’s
Naacp Cedar Rapids
Coe College
State Board of Regents
Waterloo
University of Iowa
Lileah
NAACP
Cedar Rapids Human Rights Commission
Public Health
Harrises
Rebecca
Sarah
Anne
Grant
Matthew
Mark
Paul
Philip
Peter
David
Bruce
Bever Avenue SE
Linn County Public Health and Child and Youth Development Services