"State Senate, governor honor Senator Britt." The Baltimore Sun, 18 January 2008.

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State Senate, governor honor Senator Britt
Regional Digest
January 18, 2008

With about 20 family members of the late Sen. Gwendolyn T. Britt in attendance, the Maryland Senate paid tribute yesterday to the Prince George's County lawmaker and civil rights activist, who died Saturday.

Gov. Martin O'Malley told the overflowing chamber that Britt was "deeply loved throughout our state" and was "one of the strongest and classiest senators that ever walked these floors."

The five-year Democratic state senator, who was jailed in 1961 for protesting segregationist Jim Crow laws in Mississippi, also campaigned for civil rights on behalf of ex-offenders and homosexuals.

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller ended the service, saying "She began her life by breaking laws for human rights, and ended her life by making laws for human rights."

Britt's funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. today at the Reid Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church in Glenn Dale. A two-hour wake will precede the service.

[Gadi Dechter