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Civil rights trailblazer Atkins dies at 69

By Eric Moskowitz and Mark Feeney
Globe Staff / June 29, 2008

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Thomas I. Atkins, a hard-driving champion of racial justice who rose from rural Indiana to become Boston's first black at-large city councilor and faced off against opponents of busing in the 1970s as an NAACP leader, has died at 69. (Full article: 1514 words)

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