The late Doris Bunte was one of a kind: an adaptive, effective difference-maker
By Bill Wright and Barry Lawton February 24, 2021 Doris Bunte Doris Bunte, who died on Feb. 15 at age 87, was a wonderful woman, a magnificent mentor, and a prodigious politician. The word that describes her best is “Mother.” Doris was that, yes, and also a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. She was also a mother to many more than her biological offspring. As the first African-American woman elected to the Massachusetts Legislature, she was a political trailblazer who was inv...
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