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Portland’s Black Catholic service couple Bill and Gladys McCoy used their power for society’s good Gladys McCoy greets Archbishop William Levada at a 1991 Mass honoring the work of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (Michael Wilhelm/Catholic Sentinel) 7/8/2021 4:53 PM select Bill McCoy entered the Oregon Legislature in 1972 and would serve until his death in 1996. (Sentinel archives) Gladys McCoy serves as a lector at Holy Cross Church in North Portland in 1992, a year before her death. (Sentinel archives) • • In 1996, when Bill and Gladys McCoy had died after fruitful careers in public service, a former Sentinel reporter wrote a reflection. “It is hard to think of one McCoy without the other,” wrote Geri Ethen, who’d known the couple since her childhood. “These path-breakers set goals for themselves in the early civil rights era to go where no A

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