Melnea Cass

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Melnea Agnes Cass (née Jones ^[1]) was an American community and civil rights activist born June 16, 1896. She was deeply involved in many community projects and volunteer groups in the South End and Roxbury neighborhoods in Boston, Massachusetts. She is responsible for helping to found the Boston local Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and for assisting women with voter registration after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. She was affectionately known as the "First Lady of Roxbury"[1]. Cass died on December 16, 1978.

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1. ^ Some sources list her middle name as Jones. Jones was her maiden name.