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Armando Rodriguez, pioneering Latino educator who served four U.S. presidents, dies at 97

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The neighborhood kids in San Diego’s Logan Heights took one look at Armando Rodriguez’s dark skin and gave him a nickname: Shadow.

Then he grew up to cast his own light as a pioneering educator and civil rights activist who served in the administrations of four U.S. presidents.

Rodriguez died Sunday…