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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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(1923) James Weldon Johnson, “Our Democracy and the Ballot”
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10
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(1918) Rev. Francis J. Grimke, “Victory for the Allies and the United States a Ground of Rejoicing, of Thanksgiving”
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(1968) Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
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(1966) Robert F. Kennedy, “Day of Affirmation Address"
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(1867) John Sella Martin, A Speech Before the Paris Antislavery Conference
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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
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(1861) Alexander H. Stephens, “Cornerstone Speech”
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