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Shirley Green-Reese

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Shirley Green-Reese is a civil rights activist, professor, and a researcher who rose to prominence as one of the 1963 Leesburg Stockade Girls. She was one of the fourteen African American girls who were imprisoned during the Civil Rights Movement in Dawson, Georgia and Leesburg, Georgia. Green-Reese was a councilwoman in Americus, Georgia.

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