Life well lived: Millie Dunn Veasey, military and civil rights trailblazer, dies at 100
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Millie Dunn Veasey was a trailblazing U.S. Army veteran and civil rights leader. After enlisting in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, an all-women, African American battalion, she served abroad in Europe during World War II. She later returned home to work in the civil rights movement, becoming the first female president for the NAACP in Raleigh, North Carolina and sitting next to Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington in 1963.March 18, 2018
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