Civil rights leader Timuel Black dies at 102
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Civil rights leader Timuel Black died Wednesday at the age of 102, according to a statement from the University of Chicago where he obtained a master's degree in 1954.
"He marched with Martin Luther King Jr., campaigned for Chicago mayor Harold Washington, mentored a young Barack Obama and helped bring the Obama Presidential Center to the South Side," the university said of the civil rights leader in a statement.
Black also helped end segregation in the Chicago Public Schools district through his work as an educator and administrator, the university said.
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