Hazel Dukes, the celebrated civil rights leader who fought for housing equity as the first Black person in the Nassau County district attorney's office in the 1960s and, two decades later, became the second woman to lead the NAACP,

Civil rights icon Dr. Hazel Dukes, an Alabama native and president of the NAACP New York State Conference, has died. She was 92 years old. “I’m saddened to hear of the passing of my true friend, sister and friend for more than 40 years,