September 20, 2014
Dorothy Turner, left, is shown with fellow Living Legend Ferdinand Day at a 2014 MetroStage reception honoring local Civil Rights icons. Turner died March 3 at the age of 87.
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Alexandria Obituary: Remembering Dorothy Evans Turner
Public housing, Civil Rights activist dies at 87.
To her friends, she was affectionately known as “Peaches.” But the tender moniker belied the fierce, unyielding spirit of Dorothy Turner, a descendant of one of Alexandria’s oldest African American families, when she was fighting for equal rights for public housing tenants.
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