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Lucille Gorham a longtime activist, whose quick wits and good-natured tenacity equipped her as the voice for impoverished East Baltimore neighborhoods. After experiencing a riot in 1968, Gorham was compelled to make a change in the community. She soon led a successful community-owned and operated housing complex that would be built on Madison Park Square between Caroline and Eden streets. She went on to become the director of the Madison Square Housing Association, president of Citizens for Fair Housing, director of the Middle East Community, and the leader of a neighborhood 4-H Club. Ms. Gorham worked hard to reserve a sense of community against the erosions of property and displacement.