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Ceremony honors blacks in military

Reenactors paraded during the sixth annual African-American Military Heritage Day in Roxbury yesterday. Reenactors paraded during the sixth annual African-American Military Heritage Day in Roxbury yesterday. (Essdras M Suarez/Globe Staff)
By Emma Rose Johnson
Globe Correspondent / May 24, 2009

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Among several hundred people who gathered to celebrate African-American veterans in Roxbury's General Edward O. Gourdin Park yesterday was the grand-nephew of the famed judge, general, and athlete for whom the park is named. (Full article: 290 words)

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