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(1862) William C. Nell Speaks At The Crispus Attucks Commemoration, Boston
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African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era
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(1976) Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, “Who, Then, Will Speak for the Common Good?”
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(1963) John F. Kennedy, “We Face A Moral Crisis: The Civil Rights Message to Congress, 1963”
On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy sent his civil right message to Congress urging it to pass a civil rights act.  The message was immediately prompted by the action of Governor George Wallace of Alabama in physically blocking the entrance of two African American students whom a federal
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Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805–79, American abolitionist, b. Newburyport, Mass. He supplemented his limited schooling with newspaper work and in 1829 went to Baltimore to aid Benjamin Lundy in publishing the Genius of Universal Emancipation. This led (1830) to his imprisonment for seven weeks
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