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Patricia Stephens Due, advocate for civil rights

By Douglas Martin

 |  New York Times  

  February 13, 2012

Patricia Stephens Due, whose belief that, as she put it, “ordinary people can do extraordinary things’’ propelled her to leadership in the civil rights movement - but at a price, including 49 days in a stark Florida jail - died Tuesday in Smyrna, Ga. She was 72.

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