Civil rights trailblazer Atkins dies at 69
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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