A Walk for Change in Guildford County

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A Walk for Change in Guildford County

… and the lives of African-Americans that have passed.

The … he was the only African-American dishwasher at Woolworth’s … worked with over 150 African-American male students in Guilford … this organization to support African-American male students. I wanted …

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