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Source: UVA Today

6/18/19

Historian and Civil Rights Activist Paul Gaston Dies at 91

Renowned Southern historian Paul Gaston, who grew to appreciate wine, “was wonderful and wonderfully complicated,” said UVA associate professor of history John Edwin Mason.

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Historian and Civil Rights Activist Paul Gaston Dies at 91