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By State Senator Jennifer McClellan· Updated January 10, 2023
Lois McClellan grew up in the segregated South in a family of domestic workers and laborers during the Great Depression. She became the first in her family to go beyond eighth grade and went on to work as a food service worker, childcare provider and trainer and college counselor. While her husband paid a poll tax for the opportunity
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