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Dear Mrs. Leavell: I would like to express my appreciation to you and the staff of the Chicago Crusader for producing an excellent and much appreciated publication. I look forward with great enthusiasm to the delivery of the paper to my home in Houston and reading your coverage of local Chicago stories, historical accounts of []

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Civil War, in U.S. history, conflict (1861–65) between the Northern states (the Union) and the Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederacy . It is generally known in the South as the War between the States and is also called the War of the Rebellion (the official Union

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The Civil Rights Act of 1960 (Pub.L. 86–449, 74 Stat. 89, enacted May 6, 1960) was a United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someones attempt to register to vote. It was designed to deal with

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Dr. Winston Clifton Hackett: First African American Physician in Arizona

Dr. Winston Clifton Hackett was the first African-American physician in Arizona. He was also the founder of the Booker T. Washington Memorial Hospital, the first hospital in Phoenix which served the African-American community. Hackett was born in Tyler, Texas where he received his primary and

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights in the United States

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Hilliard, Earl (1942- )

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