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- ↑ Wallace, Andy. "Rachel D. DuBois, 101; champion of dialogue across racial barriers", The Philadelphia Inquirer , April 1, 1993. Accessed December 26, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Rachel Davis DuBois, 101, of Woodstown, N.J., a dynamic Quaker who spent a lifetime teaching people how to put away anger and hate and to value one another, died Tuesday in the Memorial Hospital of Salem County."
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