The woman who would not be moved, moved hundreds of well-wishers Saturday. Eugenia Fortes, moving under her own formidable power just a few months shy of age 93, shed a smile as bright as the hot sun Saturday while her fellow townspeople celebrated the naming of East Beach in Hyannis Port in her honor. The civil rights activist who helped found the Cape Cod branch of the NAACP was still a young woman when she was ordered off the beach by a uniformed officer who told her “colored people are on the other side.” 2004 Barnstable Patriot Early File.
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