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Civil rights veteran Rosie Marbury speaks at Lorain luncheon
Rev. Rosie Marbury 59 describes life in Mississippi during the 1960s as she recalls threats from KKK members to her father and her own journey to Cleveland to become a nurse. She will headline the Adopt-A-Block Lecture at Friendship Baptist Church, sharing how welfare aided her nursing education and urging young women toward GEDs and job training.
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