Kenya: Kaburengu - the Blackspot That Continues to Claim Lives

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Kenya: Kaburengu - the Blackspot That Continues to Claim Lives

[Nation] On an ordinary day, the Kaburengu junction on the busy Eldoret-Malaba highway is usually bustling with activity at the roadside market.

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1872

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Thomas J. “Tom” Bradley, five-term Mayor of Los Angeles and the first major black candidate for Governor of California, was born in Calvert, Texas, on December 29, 1917, the son of Lee Thomas Bradley, a railroad porter, and Crenner Bradley, a maid. He was the grandson of former

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(1837) William Whipper, “Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression”

? Few Americans are aware of the deep roots of peace activism in the African American community. Benjamin Banneker, the 18th Century mathematician and astronomer, recommended that a “Secretary of Peace” be added to the President’s cabinet whose chief function would be to craft measu

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9

2016

(2008) Senator Barack Obama, "A More Perfect Union"

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"Yes We Can": Barack Obama's Road to the White House, 2008

Barack Obamas campaign for the Presidency in 2008 has been described by many political analysts as brilliant and virtually flawless. Despite his inexperience in national politics and limited experience in state politics (Obama was first elected to political office in 1994), he assembled

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Young, Andrew (1932 - )

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12

1932

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1951

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Barr, Joyce A. (1951- )

Ambassador Joyce Anne Barr was born in 1951 in Tacoma, Washington. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Pacific Lutheran University in 1976, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. Ambassador Barr earned her Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard

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Baird, Harry (1931-2005)

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Washington (State) Omnibus Civil Rights Act of 1957

Washington (State) Omnibus Civil Rights Act of 1957

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Davis, Ruth A. (1943 - )

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Johnson, Charles V. (1928- )

Charles Vernon Johnson was an influential member of the Seattle African American community from the moment he moved out west in 1954 to attend law school at the University of Washington. Johnson, originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, was one of a few black graduate students at the University of

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National name: République dHaïti

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Racial Uplift, Black Power, and Reparations on the Kansas Frontier: Abram T. Hall, Edward P. McCabe, and John W. Niles

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(1964) Lyndon B. Johnson, “Radio and Television Address at the Signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act"

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The Best of Reclaiming Kin: Helpful Tips on Researching Your Roots

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Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire (1909- )

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1990

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Berry Lawson Case (1938)

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(1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”

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KKK activities effects Oklahoma

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