Mrs. Fitzhugh, a groundbreaking black federal court reporter who transcribed the court proceedings for the Boston school desegregation case and an educator who established a court reporting program at Massasoit Community College, died Dec. 29 in Stafford Hill Assisted Living in Plymouth. She was 91 and lived in Brockton before moving to Plymouth in 2011. Her educational path was never easy. As a sophomore at Howard University in Washington, D.C., she fractured her spine, which hospitalized her for months. As soon as she was able, she went back to school, working three jobs to pay her way through....MORE

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