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James Earl Reid

1942–2021

United States

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James Earl Reid (September 9, 1942 – July 18, 2021) was an American sculptor. Reid was best known for the statue of Billie Holiday in Baltimore, Maryland, and for the sculpture Third World America that was at the center of the 1989 U.S. Supreme Court case Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid.

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