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Jo Ann Allen Boyce has died from pancreatic cancer at age 84

The civil rights trailblazer was a member of the "Clinton 12" and was Cameron Boyce’s grandmother

"My Nana stuck up for what she believed in and did something amazing," the late Disney star, who died after suffering a seizure in 2021, previously told PEOPLE

Jo Ann Allen Boyce, a member of the "Clinton 12" and Cameron Boyce ’s grandmother, has died. She was 84.

Jo Ann died from pancreatic cancer while she was surrounded by family at her home in California on Dec. 3, according to the Los Angeles Times .

The civil rights trailblazer attended the first integrated public high school in the South after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. The Board of Education ordered Clinton High School to desegre

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