North, Cooper, Fridley, Shakopee make it to state

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North, Cooper, Fridley, Shakopee make it to state

The state football playoffs are upon us, and with that here are four metro coaches whose outstanding leadership has put their schools in position to capture a state title.

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Booker T. Washington opens Tuskegee Institute in Alabama

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When Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter decided to get married in June 1958, laws banning interracial marriage had been in effect for nearly three centuries. The colonies of Maryland, Virginia, and Massachusetts had banned intermarriage in 1664, 1691, and 1705. After the American Revolution, states

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Robert Smalls was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, on April 5, 1839 and worked as a house slave until the age of 12. At that point his owner, John K. McKee, sent him to Charleston to work as a waiter, ship rigger, and sailor, with all earnings going to McKee. This arrangement continued until

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1862

Duncan, Todd (1903-1998)

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1998

(1905) Roscoe Conkling Bruce, “Freedom Through Education”

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1916

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1903

King, Marjorie Edwina Pitter (1921-1996)

Marjorie Edwina Pitter King, the youngest of the Pitter sisters, was born March 8, 1921, to Edward A. Pitter and Marjorie Allen Pitter, in Seattle, Washington. When she graduated from Garfield High School, she joined her sisters at the University of Washington to study for an accounting degree in

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8

1921

Rawles, George Washington (1845–1922)

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1922

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1949

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1892

The Freeman's Bureau.

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(1963) Josephine Baker, “Speech at the March on Washington”

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1925

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1925

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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Dec

31

1775

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1917

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Miller, Thomas E. (1849-1938)

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1938

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1896

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