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(1861) Alexander H. Stephens, “Cornerstone Speech”
On March 21, 1861, after seven states had seceded from the United States, two weeks after the inauguration of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, but three weeks before the firing on Fort Sumter, Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens delivered what would be called the Cornerstone Speech in
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The Color Purple (musical)
The Color Purple is a musical with a book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Stephen Bray, Brenda Russell, and Allee Willis. Based on the 1982 novel by Alice Walker, the show follows the journey of Celie, an African-American woman in the American South from the early to mid-20th
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott v. Sandford, United States Supreme Court, 1857
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Venture capital is in the middle of a reset, but no one is changing | TechCabal
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No reason why SA should stop selling arms to Turkey - Mapisa-Nqakula
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Actor Geoffrey Holder born
Actor Geoffrey Holder was born on the island of Trinidad, British West Indies.
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Aug
1
1930
Kenya: Panic as Guests, Staff Attacked at Pinewood Beach Resort and Spa
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Who Gets to Be an American? On the Evolution of US Citizenship
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(1918) Rev. Francis J. Grimke, “Victory for the Allies and the United States a Ground of Rejoicing, of Thanksgiving”
Francis J. Grimke was born a slave in Charleston, South Carolina on November 4, 1850.  After the war he and his older brother, Archibald, went north to Lincoln University.  Francis graduated from Lincoln in 1870.  After working briefly at Lincoln, Grimke attended Princeton Theological Seminary from
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Nov
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1850
Liberia
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Congo-Kinshasa: How 'Ebola Business' Threatens Aid Operations in Congo
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Senate to probe admission fraud in varsities, polytechnics
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(1966) Robert F. Kennedy, “Day of Affirmation Address"
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1966
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(1968) Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
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Apr
3
1968
U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller to Retire After 13 Years Serving V.I. District Court
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(1879) John Mercer Langston, “The Exodus: The Causes Which Led The Colored People of the South to Leave Their Homes – The Lesson
? In 1879 an unanticipated migration of nearly seven thousand African Americans from Mississippi and Louisiana to Kansas prompted a debate among national black leaders.  Frederick Douglass thought it unwise that black women and men would leave the South.  John Mercer Langston disagreed.  As in this
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Castel Malawi offers employees post devaluation bail-out package - Malawi News Network
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(1923) James Weldon Johnson, “Our Democracy and the Ballot”
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Mar
10
1923
(1867) John Sella Martin, A Speech Before the Paris Antislavery Conference
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1867
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