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? 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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(1982) Audre Lorde, “Learning from the 60s”
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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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(1861) Alexander H. Stephens, “Cornerstone Speech”
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(1966) Robert F. Kennedy, “Day of Affirmation Address"
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