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Article: Gammage memorial scholarship established
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- New Pittsburgh Courier
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- January 21, 1998
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Gammage memorial scholarship established
by Deepak Karamcheti
Courier Staff Writer
Jonny Gammage may have died at the hands of five white suburban police officers, but his name will live on as a result of a new scholarship fund established by the Pittsburgh Branch of the NAACP.
Gammage, 31, died Oct. 12, 1995, after being stopped for allegedly driving erratically along Route 51.
George Fyke announced the creation of The Jonny Gammage Memorial Scholarship Fund during a Jan. 19 press conference.
"Nothing can be done today to bring Jonny back," Fyke said. "However, the establishment of The Jonny Gammage Memorial Scholarship Fund will ...