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Tag: 2023 Louise Tanner Brown Award Honors Rashida Lovely

  • The Louise Tanner Brown Award Goes to Rashida Lovely

    The Louise Tanner Brown Award Goes to Rashida Lovely
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    Louise Tanner Brown (1883–1955), lived in Scranton, businesswoman, civic leader and activist in the civil rights movement, educator, orator, dramatist, and humanitarian. In Scranton’s growing African American community in the early 20th century, she operated the G.W. Brown Trucking Co. and made it a success. Brown lived her life in Scranton as a successful businesswoman,… Read more