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Margaree Seawright Crosby

Margaree Seawright Crosby (November 21, 1941 – November 8, 2024) was an American civil rights activist and academic. She was one of the Greenville Eight, Black students arrested for refusing to leave a whites-only public library in 1960. She was a...

Updated: September 2, 2026

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Deaths in November 2024

cancer. Stanisław Chiliński, 68, Polish Olympic wrestler (1980). Margaree Seawright Crosby, 82, American civil rights activist and academic. Michael Eitan

Updated: September 11, 2026

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Greenville Eight

The Greenville Eight was a group of African American students, seven in high school and one in college, that successfully protested the segregated library system in Greenville, South Carolina in 1960. Among the eight was Jesse Jackson, a college...

Updated: June 25, 2026

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Dorris Wright

Dorris "DeeDee" Wright is an American Civil Rights activist, and one of the Greenville Eight, who successfully protested the segregation of the Greenville Public Library in 1960.

Updated: March 29, 2026