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? William Henry Crogman, a native of the West Indian island of St. Martin, was educated at Pierce Academy in Massachusetts immediately after the Civil War. In 1868 he was named to the English faculty of newly organized Claflin College in South Carolina. By 1870 Crogman returned to college, ente
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(1993) William J. Clinton, “The Freedom to Die"
On November 13, 1993, President Bill Clinton traveled to Memphis to address 5,000 African American ministers at the national headquarters of the Church of God in Christ.  Speaking from the pulpit where in 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his last sermon, Clinton used the occasion to urge the
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(1955) Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., "Speech on Civil Rights"
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - Former Jamaica Prime Minister P J Patterson has warned against a fragmentation of the regional integration grouping, Caricom, and is urging regional leaders to ensure that the Caribbean is present 'at the table' as negotiations continue for a new world order.
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(1871) Congressman Robert C. DeLarge, “Speech on the Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment”
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