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Faya Ora Rose Touré

1945–

United States

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Faya Ora Rose Touré, born Rose M. Gaines, (born May 20, 1945) is an American civil rights activist and lawyer who was Alabama’s first black woman judge. Henry Sanders is her husband.

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