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Marion Stokes

Born: 1929-11-25 • Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Marion Stokes (November 25, 1929 – December 14, 2012) was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania access television producer, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and prolific archivist, especially known for single-handedly amassing hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 until her death at age 83, at which time she operated nine properties and three storage units.

Filmography
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project poster
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
2019 • Self (archive footage)
The Silver Lining poster
The Silver Lining
1932 • Edna Joyce