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Quarles died Saturday at her home in Oxford, according to officials with Kenneth I. Roberson Funeral Home in Pontotoc. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. A list of survivors was not available.
Quarles was an outspoken leader during the local struggle for the integration of public schools — brought to a head when she placed her own name on the federal lawsuit filed against Oxford city schools in 1969.
Quarles was active in local Democratic Party politics and was a board member of the North Mississippi Rural Legal Services.
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