By Lydia Nuzum Early one morning in 1974, a group of youth counselors dropped Mary Jean Davis off in downtown Charleston and left her there with a simple charge - earn enough money panhandling to make a phone call. Dressed in jeans and wearing a wig, Davis, a longtime Charleston city council member and Charleston native, had agreed to the plan, believing she would spend no more than a couple of hours on the street before someone gave her a quarter.
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