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Franklin Florence

1933–2023

United States

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Florence Sr. (August 9, 1933 – February 1, 2023) was an American Christian minister who was heavily involved in civil rights work in Rochester, New York, for five decades. He was most well known as the founder and first president of the civil rights group FIGHT in 1965 after the 1964 Rochester race riot.

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