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A Woman to Know: Roxcy Bolton

A Woman to Know: Roxcy Bolton

Women sometimes will talk about a problem, agonize about it too much. You’ve got to go out and, like the Marines, hit the beaches. — Roxcy Bolton

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Oct 23, 2019
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Women sometimes will talk about a problem, agonize about it too much. You’ve got to go out and, like the Marines, hit the beaches. — Roxcy Bolton

(Roxcy with Eleanor Roosevelt, image via Wikimedia)

Roxcy will forever be associated with hurricanes.

As a Miami resident and prominent civil rights activist, Roxcy claimed associating women with disaster was de…

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