Melnea Cass

Deceased Person

1896 – 1978

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Who was Melnea Cass?

Melnea Agnes Cass was an American community and civil rights activist. She was deeply involved in many community projects and volunteer groups in the South End and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston and helped found the Boston local of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Cass also assisted women with voter registration after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. She was affectionately known as the "First Lady of Roxbury."

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Born
Jun 16, 1896
Died
Dec 16, 1978

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on July 23, 2013

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