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Lucy Randolph Mason
… Born near Alexandria, Va., in 1882, Lucy Randolph Mason vowed as a child to continue her family's long tradition of community service and commitment to human rights. Her father and grandfather were … rights to free speech, assembly and due process that George Mason had helped establish. Mason began her social reform work in Richmond, Va., where she had spent her childhood. As a young girl in her 20s, she supported herself by working as a … groups. She was instrumental in getting the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt a resolution in 1938 recognizing "the right of labor to organize and engage in collective bargaining to the end that labor may have a fair and living wage, such as …