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Flonzie Brown Wright

1942–

United States

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Flonzie Brown-Wright (also known as Flonzie Brown-Goodloe; born 1942) is an American civil rights activist, voting rights activist, educator, and author. In 1968, she was elected Election Commissioner in Canton, becoming the first Black woman elected to a public office in Mississippi since the Reconstruction era. She worked with Martin Luther King Jr.

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