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A First for Atlanta

Atlanta Journal Constitution
In a photo clipped from the newspaper an older Black woman with short gray hair wearing a red and black suit jacket stands next to a Black woman with short blonde hair wearing a dark suit with rhinestone accents and a pearl necklance holding her right hand in the air as she faces a Black female judge wearing robes.
Source: Kimberly Smith, Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Clipping from article “A First for Atlanta,” 2002.

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