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Miami – Dade’s First Black Female Police – Thelma Harris Dies At 88

                  As a teenager new to her neighborhood, Thelma Gaitor Freeman Harris was enthralled in two passions: going to the library and participating in amateur shows with her sisters at the Harlem Square hotspot in Overtown. A chance meeting with seaman Walter Freeman in 1945 while she […]

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