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With the U.S. Capitol as a backdrop, speakers at GW's Commencement ceremony this morning told graduates to continue their dedication to making the world a better place, to advocate for those in need and to take chances.

Alumna and arts and education advocate Peggy Cooper Cafritz and attorney was awarded an honorary degree at the ceremony.

Honorary degree recipient Ms. Cafritz, B.S. '68, J.D. '71, talked about her experience fighting segregation, including picketing GW sororities and fraternities that did not admit black students, and her work starting Washington, D.C.'s Duke Ellington School of the Arts. "Each of you can create if your guiding notion is to give to somebody who has less," she said.

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