Award

• Gerald Talbot, the first African American to win a seat in the Maine state legislature, had the auditorium in Luther Bonney Hall on the campus of the University of Southern Maine named in his honor. Talbot never attended college. But in 1995 he donated his collection of memorabilia and documents concerning the history of blacks in Maine to the university.

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