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(1918) Rev. Francis J. Grimke, “Victory for the Allies and the United States a Ground of Rejoicing, of Thanksgiving”
Francis J. Grimke was born a slave in Charleston, South Carolina on November 4, 1850.  After the war he and his older brother, Archibald, went north to Lincoln University.  Francis graduated from Lincoln in 1870.  After working briefly at Lincoln, Grimke attended Princeton Theological Seminary from
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Libianca, Victony And Other Afrobeats Artists To Watch In 2024 - Blavity
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(1968) Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
The following speech, a sermon Dr. Martin Luther King gave at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968, was the last public appearance before his assassination the next day.  King, in Memphis to support a strike by garbage workers, gives a poignant vision of the victorious future of the
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3
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(1879) John Mercer Langston, “The Exodus: The Causes Which Led The Colored People of the South to Leave Their Homes – The Lesson
? In 1879 an unanticipated migration of nearly seven thousand African Americans from Mississippi and Louisiana to Kansas prompted a debate among national black leaders.  Frederick Douglass thought it unwise that black women and men would leave the South.  John Mercer Langston disagreed.  As in this
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FCB sponsors K5m towards ICAM’s annual conference on September 19-21 - Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi
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Tim Scott Tells Chicago Black Church Congregation To Stop Focusing On Race
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U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller to Retire After 13 Years Serving V.I. District Court
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Nigeria: Senate Passes U.S.$2.8 Billion Supplementary Budget
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Who Gets to Be an American? On the Evolution of US Citizenship
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(1867) John Sella Martin, A Speech Before the Paris Antislavery Conference
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(1923) James Weldon Johnson, “Our Democracy and the Ballot”
Poet, novelist and U.S. diplomat, James Weldon Johnson is probably best known to millions as the author of the lyrics to “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the black national anthem. Johnson was also a civil rights activist and was Executive Secretary of the National Association of Colored
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Mar
10
1923
(1966) Robert F. Kennedy, “Day of Affirmation Address"
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(1861) Alexander H. Stephens, “Cornerstone Speech”
On March 21, 1861, after seven states had seceded from the United States, two weeks after the inauguration of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, but three weeks before the firing on Fort Sumter, Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens delivered what would be called the Cornerstone Speech in
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