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Liberia
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12
1980
Long, Nate (1930-2002)
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14
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Alaska Fair Employment Practices Law (1953)
Relating to and providing far the elimination of certain practice of discrimination because of race, color, religion or national origin; providing
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(1909) Ida B. Wells, “Lynching Our National Crime”
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(1833) Maria W. Stewart, “An Address at the African Masonic Hall”
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Turner, Henry McNeal (1834-1915)
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1852
Brown, Corrine (1946- )
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1946
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1947
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