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The Chronicle Telegram

Location

Elyria, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Feb 09, 2025

Page

8

Mothers of AIDS victims left mark on equality movement

Eloise Vaughn and Patsy Clarke, Raleigh area mothers who lost sons to AIDS, formed MAJIC to oppose Jesse Helms. Their activism advanced AIDS funding and gay rights, pairing two divergent political lives in a shared fight for acceptance. They died within weeks of each other in 1996 and 2008.

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Friendship Nine Leader Thomas Gaither Remembered in Civil Rights History

Thomas Walter Gaither, organizer of the 1961 Rock Hill McCrorys sit in, died aged 86 in Prospect Pennsylvania. He helped spark Freedom Rides and CORE actions, enduring a 30 day hard labor sentence with eight others and inspiring ongoing nonviolent protest across the South. His role linked to Gandhi and King shaped later civil rights actions and the Friendship Nine legacy, including a York County conviction vacatur in 2015.

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