Gerald Talbot, civil rights leader and Maine’s first Black legislator, dies at 94

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Maine Morning Star –

Gerald Talbot, a civil rights leader and the first African American to serve in the Maine Legislature, died Saturday at the age of 94. Talbot, who was born in Bangor in 1931, was an advocate for civil and human rights. He travelled to Washington, D.C. to participate in the 1963 March on Washington, and in []