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Commentary: Henry Marsh taught us the power of persistence
Henry L. Marsh’s fight was for civil rights, but his values — justice, fairness, equality — extend far beyond any single ...
Henry Marsh III, First Black Mayor Of Richmond, Dies At 91
Marsh, born and raised in Richmond, had an elementary school named after him in 2020 when the Richmond School Board voted to rename George Mason Elementary school in his honor, to Henry L. Marsh Eleme ...
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The Current: Henry Marsh dies at 91
Henry L. Marsh III, Richmond's first Black mayor and a major civil rights lawyer who represented the city as a state Senator for 22 years, died Thursday night at the age of 91. ( Times-Dispatch) ...
Richmond13dOpinion
Williams: Henry L. Marsh III left an indelible mark on politics and civil rights
Henry L. Marsh III — a graduate of Maggie L. Walker High, Virginia Union University and Howard University Law School — left a ...
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Henry Marsh
Henry Marsh is a neurosurgeon. His most recent book is “And Finally: Matters of Life and Death” (Jonathan Cape) A sweeping history of the NHS and one GP’s inside account of a long career on the front ...
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‘A legitimate hero’: Remembering Henry Marsh
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond’s first African American mayor Henry Marsh III died at 91 years old on Friday. Marsh was a political trailblazer, with his impact spanning far beyond Richmond ...
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Richmond’s first Black mayor is remembered as a civil rights fighter and trailblazer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Current and former Virginia elected leaders speaking at this weekend’s service for the first Black mayor of Richmond recalled Henry L. Marsh III’s trailblazing career ...
Augusta Free Press17d
Mentor, confidant, friend: Richmond’s first Black mayor, Henry Marsh III, dies
Courtesy of Henry L. Marsh III Elementary School. Henry L. Marsh III Elementary School was dedicated in Richmond in August 2020. Marsh, a civil rights attorney, longtime Virginia Senator and the ...
Virginia Mercury14d
Appreciation: Henry L. Marsh III
It could be easy at times to forget that Sen. Henry Marsh was even there, listening quietly from his back-row desk in the Senate of Virginia. Marsh, who died last week at the age of 91, wasn’t flashy ...
Yahoo News15d
Appreciation: Henry L. Marsh III
Sen. Henry Marsh, D-Richmond, at an event hosted by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia in 2009 marking the 50th anniversary of the end of Massive Resistance. (Courtesy of UVA Center ...
The Washington Post15d
Henry Marsh, first Black mayor of Richmond, dies at 91
Henry L. Marsh III, a civil rights lawyer and long-serving Virginia state senator who in 1977 became the first Black mayor of Richmond, ushering in an era of African American leadership in the ...