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National name: Al Jumahiriyah al Arabiyah al Libiyah ash Shabiyah al Ishtirakiyah al Uzma
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Mensah, Raphael Abraham Frank (1924-1990s)
Raphael Abraham Frank Mensah (1924-1990s), a schoolmaster and theologian, played a foundational role in bringing Mormonism to Ghana. Born in 1924 in Winneba, Gold Coast, as the British colony of Ghana was then called, he was the eldest of five children, three sons and two daughters.  Mensah
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Tunisia
Tunisian Republic
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A. Philip Randolph Institute (1965- )
The A. Philip Randolph Institute was founded by and named for labor leader Asa Philip Randolph, who was the longtime president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union. Randolph and his friend and fellow activist Bayard Rustin founded APRI in 1965 after their successful 1963 March on
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Benin, Bight of
Benin, Bight of, northern arm of the Gulf of Guinea, c.550 mi (885 km) wide, W Africa, between Cape Three Points, S Ghana, and the Niger River delta, SW Nigeria. The bight was an important area for slave trading between the 16th and 19th cent. After the 19th cent. palm oil trading became fo
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Egypt
Egypt, at the northeast corner of Africa on the Mediterranean Sea, is bordered on the west by Libya, on the south by the Sudan, and on the east by the Red Sea and Israel. It is nearly one and one-half times the size of Texas. Egypt is divided into two unequal, extremely arid regions by the
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(1876) Senator Blanche K. Bruce, “...Appointing a Committee to Investigate Election Practices in Mississippi”
Senator Blanche K. Bruce, “Speech Before The Senate to Introduce a Resolution Appointing a Committee to Investigate Election Practices in Mississippi,” 1876
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First Reconstruction legislature (27 Blacks, 150 whites) met in Richmond, Virginia.
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(1838) Angelina Grimké Weld, “Speech in Pennsylvania Hall”
In the speech below Angelina Grimke Weld, who was born to a prominent slaveholding family in Charleston, South Carolina, invites the women and men of Philadelphia to join  her in the campaign against
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National Equal Rights League (1864–1921)
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Thomas, Gerald E. (1929- )
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(1837) William Whipper, “Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression”
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Louisiana legislature met in New Orleans
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Uganda
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African American Freemen In Louisiana: African Americans in Louisiana had alread
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Djibouti
National name: Jumhouriyya Djibouti
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Anthony, Susan Brownell
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Chad
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