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Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
4 min readJun 4, 2021

At the age of 15, a young girl from Chicago named Hadiya Pendleton had the honor of performing on behalf of her high school at the second presidential inauguration of Barack Obama. She was a talented majorette dancer and a sophomore at King College Prep. Just over a week later, while she waited in the park with friends after taking her final exams, she was shot and killed. Hadiya’s death came to serve as a microcosm of the…

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Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) is a 501(c)(4) organization founded in 1974. We are the nation’s oldest gun violence prevention organization.