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Influential Puerto Rican Activist Group the Young Lords
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(1965) Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Voting Rights Act"
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Malawi: Chilima Under Fire for Describing Malawi Dictator Kamuzu As 'Champion of Democracy'
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(1859) William Lloyd Garrison, “On the Death of John Brown”
On December 2, 1859, John Brown was executed by Virginia authorities in Charles Town for his ill-fated raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry.  Soon after word of his death reached Boston, William Lloyd Garrison, the leading abolitionist in the United States at the time, gave this stirring
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(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, “Slavery As It Concerns The British”
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(1865) Henry Highland Garnet, “Let The Monster Perish”
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(1982) Audre Lorde, “Learning from the 60s”
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(1949) Nnamdi Azikiwe Addresses Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity at its 35th Annual Convention in Washington, D.C.
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