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‘Extraordinary individual’: Tributes pour in for Henry Marsh
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Henry Marsh, Richmond’s first Black mayor who died Thursday, is being remembered as a “trailblazer,” “extraordinary individual” and a “true statesman.” ...
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Richmond's first Black mayor remembered as civil rights fighter and trailblazer
RICHMOND, Va. — 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 and his ...
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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 ...