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“Going South: William Fontaine’s Trip to Virginia, 1948”
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(1850) Lucy Stanton, “A Plea for the Oppressed”
Lucy Stanton was probably the first African American woman to complete a four-year collegiate course of study. Stanton, the daughter of John Brown, a Cleveland barber active in the Underground Railroad, enrolled in nearby Oberlin Collegiate Institute (now Oberlin College) in northern Ohio. The
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(1864) Arnold Bertonneau, “Every Man Should Stand Equal Before the Law”
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(1963) John F. Kennedy, “We Face A Moral Crisis: The Civil Rights Message to Congress, 1963”
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