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Bertha Gilkey

1948–2014

United States

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Bertha Gilkey (née Knox; March 18, 1948 – May 25, 2014) was an African-American activist of tenant management of public housing properties. She set up the first tenant management association in St. Louis, Missouri, which successfully rehabilitated the once decrepit Cochran Gardens public housing project, and managed it for more than 20 years.

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