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Virginia Foster Durr

Age: 95

inspirational white civil rights activist who helped put an end to racist poll taxes and, with her husband (civil rights lawyer and activist Clifford Durr), posted bail for Rosa Parks after the famous 1955 bus incident.

Died: Carlisle, Pa., February 24, 1999

Tim Durando

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