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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 30 > Thomas Atkins was civil rights leader

Thomas Atkins was civil rights leader

By Eric Moskowitz and Mark Feeney / The Bulletin
June 30, 2008

Thomas Atkins, a hard-driving champion of racial justice who rose from rural Indiana to become Boston’s first black city councilor and faced off against opponents of busing in Boston in the 1970s as an NAACP leader, has died at 69.

The Harvard Law School graduate knew that access to....

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