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    Remember When: Margie Sturgis first full-time black teacher in Winnebago County

    2/1/2010


    Before school bells rang in autumn 1953, the now-defunct Winnebago County school system needed teachers. That need helped put Margie Sturgis back in the classroom.

    Margie Sturgis, who found working on the Illinois State Pardon and Parole Board endless, compared the work to "bailing out a boat with a thimble" in the April 28, 1976, Rockford Morning Star. "You see these same people rolling back in on the same charge, or some on more serious charges," she said.

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