African American History Taking a New View of the Declaration of Independence

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African American History Taking a New View of the Declaration of Independence

… of art and archaeology and African American studies at Princeton.

At Declaration … the director of African American history and the Getting Word African American Oral History …

Source: Princeton Alumni Weekly |

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