Civil Rights Leader Patricia Stephens Due
2012: Patricia Stephens Due, a leader in the civil rights movement who paid a price for her activism, including 49 days in a Florida jail in
1960. She wore dark glasses day and night because her eyes were damaged when a tear gas canister hit her in the face. She died on this day of thyroid cancer in Smyrna, Georgia at age 72. (Photo: AP)
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