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Stillman College [Tuscaloosa] (1867-- )
Stillman College is a private, four-year university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and is known as one of the Historically Black Colleges/University (HBCU’s).  In 1867, Charles Allen Stillman, Presbyterian Church pastor in Eutaw, Alabama asked the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in
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Doxie Jordan
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First Lady Michelle Obama, Former First Ladies Lend Support to First-Ever Healing Garden at Children's National Health System
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Juanita Jewel Shanks Craft (1902-1985) and the Long Civil Rights Movement in Texas
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Charles Drew, Inventor of the Blood Bank
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Patton, Lynne (1973- )
In June 2017, Lynne Patton, Vice President of the Eric Trump Foundation and a senior assistant to Eric Trump, was appointed by President Donald Trump to head the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Region II office which manages the department’s activities in New York and New
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Black Nurses Admitted to City Hospital
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United Negro College Fund
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Uganda, twice the size of Pennsylvania, is in East Africa. It is bordered on the west by Congo, on the north by the Sudan, on the east by Kenya, and on the south by Tanzania and Rwanda. The country, which lies across the equator, is divided into three main areas—swampy lowlands, a fertile plateau
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