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Bunnie Jackson-Ransom (1940-2023)
Bunnie Jackson-Ransom was an influential businesswoman and community leader based in Atlanta, Georgia. A pioneer and trailblazer affectionately known as Bunnie, Jackson-Ransom also served as Atlanta’s first Black first lady when her then-husband, the honorable Maynard Holbrook…
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Evelyn Jones Frazier (1912-2007)
Evelyn Jones Frazier was born on March 21, 1912, in Raleigh, North Carolina. She attended the Berry O’Kelly Training School in Method, North Carolina, for all her early education, graduating in May 1932. After high school, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in search of greater…
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Sadie Gray Mays (1900-1969)
Mrs. Sadie Gray Mays was a pioneering social worker, higher education administrator, federal agency leader, and community institutional builder who served for 27 years as the First Lady of Morehouse College. Born to a farming family in Gray, Georgia, Mrs. Mays forged an…
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Donald Lee Hollowell (1917-2004)
Donald Lee Hollowell was a leading civil rights lawyer whose landmark victories helped to desegregate Georgia, earning him the moniker “Mr. Civil Rights.” Scholar Maurice Daniels asserts that in this role, Hollowell defended Black men accused or convicted of capital crimes in a…