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Wyatt B. Turner, longtime civil rights activist, dies
After decades of civil rights activism on Long Island, Wyatt Burghardt Turner swore that nothing would keep him from seeing the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
He missed by just 10 days.
Turner, 93, a retired Stony Brook University history professor and founding president of the Brookhaven NAACP, died Jan. 11 in his home in Riderwood Village, a Maryland retirement community....
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