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(1963) George Wallace, “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever”
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Collins, George Washington (1925-1972)
Born on March 5, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, George Washington Collins graduated from Waller High School and immediately joined the United States Army in 1943 at the age of 18.  He rose to the rank of sergeant and was discharged in 1946.  Collins attended the Central Y.M.C.A. College in
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(1863) Frederick Douglass, Men of Color, To Arms!
? For the first two years of the Civil War black and white abolitionists urged both the liberation of the slaves and the recruitment of African American men in defense of the Union. Barely three months after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, Frederick Douglass gave a speech in R
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M. Lisa Bowie-Moon, 56, Skyline Graduate Passes With No Regrets for Her Life | Post News Group
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Vanzant, Iyanla (1953- )
Rhonda Eva Harris was born in the back of a taxi to Sarah Jefferson, a railroad car maid. Her father, Horace Harris, a petty criminal, was largely absent from Rhonda’s life.  When Sarah Jefferson died from breast cancer in 1957, Rhonda went to live with various paternal relatives, one of whom raped
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(1849) Sarah C. Roberts v. The City of Boston
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Two Families, Two Destinies: A Personal Perspective on the Rwandan Genocide of 1994
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Nigeria
Nigeria, one-third larger than Texas and the most populous country in Africa, is situated on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. Its neighbors are Benin, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad. The lower course of the Niger River flows south through the western part of the country into the Gulf of Guinea. Swamps
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Congress Could Make Juneteenth A National Holiday
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Remembering a Homewood Legend: William Baker, iconic owner of Baker’s Dairy, dies at 79
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The History, Principles, and Symbols of Kwanzaa
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Justices OK James Brown's Dying Wish: Funding Needy Kids Education
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(1859) William Lloyd Garrison, “On the Death of John Brown”
On December 2, 1859, John Brown was executed by Virginia authorities in Charles Town for his ill-fated raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry.  Soon after word of his death reached Boston, William Lloyd Garrison, the leading abolitionist in the United States at the time, gave this stirring
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(1884), Alexander Crummell, “Excellence, an End of the Trained Intellect”
In an address to women of  the graduating class of the Colored High School in Washington, D.C. on  June 6th 1884, Rev. Alexander Crummell urges them to put their intellect and their education in the service of racial advancement.  The address appears
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The popular owner of a Louisville barbeque eatery who was killed as authorities tried to quell police brutality protests was fatally shot by National Guard troops, a new investigation has
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