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Dorothy Jean Mays Boston, affectionately known as “Dot,” was born August 30, 1932, in Laurel, Mississippi, the fourth of seven children to Willie Mays and Lillie Lancaster Mays. At age nine, her family moved to Mobile, Alabama, settling in the Maysville community. She later spent her influential...
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