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Paige, Roderick Raynor (1933- )
Roderick Raynor Paige, the first African American and the first school superintendent to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Education, was born on June 17, 1933 in Monticello, Mississippi. The eldest of five children, Paige was born to his mother Sophie, a librarian, and father, Raynor
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Jay-Z
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(1997) Kweisi Mfume, “A Shining and Powerful Dream”
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Ali, Ayaan Hirsi (1969- )
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Ray, Charlotte E. (1850-1911)
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Blues
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Is The Help Realistic? It Depends.
In the essay below, Associate Professor Trysh Travis of the University of Floridas Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research Center explores some of the controversy surrounding Kathryn Stocketts novel The Help, which has also become a major film of the same name.  She argues that many people
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Fighting for Racial Justice in the Pacific Northwest: Lillian Walker and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights
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Stanford, John (1938-1998)
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Nat Turner
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Courville, Cindy L. (1954– )
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Sessions, Lucy Stanton Day (1831-1910)
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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census
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White, Lois Jean(1938- )
Lois Jean Barron White, the first African American President of the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) was born in Nashville, Tennessee on March 21, 1938. She was raised by her grandmother, Rosa Barron, as her own mother lived away in Massachusetts.  White’s grandmother taught her the value
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1938
Orr, Eugene (1946– )
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Vanzant, Iyanla (1953- )
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
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(1947) Henry A. Wallace, “Ten Extra Years”
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Ellison, Keith M. (1963- )
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(1957) Dwight Eisenhower, “Address on Little Rock"
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