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  1.                                                                                 MILESTONES, Page 78      
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  4.     DIED. Clarence Norris, 76, the last survivor of the
  5. Scottsboro Boys, nine black teenagers unjustly convicted of
  6. raping two white women near Scottsboro, Ala., in 1931, even
  7. though one of the women withdrew her accusation; in New York
  8. City. After 15 years in prison, including five on death row,
  9. Norris was paroled in 1946 and fled to New York City, where he
  10. worked in a warehouse. When he was finally pardoned in 1976,
  11. Norris said, "The lesson to black people, to my children, to
  12. everybody, is that you should always fight for your rights, even
  13. if it kills you."
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