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The Confession of Nat Turner
After Nat Turner was captured, he was interview in jail by a Baltimore lawyer, Thomas R. Gray. Nat give in some detail the hows and whys of his actions. The complete interview can be read at the following URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/5674/
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How will Kaizer Chiefs lineup against Gallants on Saturday?
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Bolden Jr., Charles F. (1946-)
Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., NASA’s first permanent black administrator, was born to Charles Frank and Ethel Bolden, both teachers, on August 19th, 1946 in Columbia, South Carolina.  He rose to the rank of Major General in the United States Marine Corps and was a National Aeronautics and Space
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U of Alabama First Black Student
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Superb Woman: Lisa Johnson-Lett - Garland Journal
Lisa Johnson-Lett is an entrusted Living Well peer supporter, mentor, educator, navigator, linkage-to-care Network Treatment Adherence and Prevention Specialist at the Living Well Outpatient Center (LWOC)- under AIDS Alabama in Birmingham. She currently serves in several capacities for: Positive
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Kenya: KMPDU Threatens Strikes Across Six Kenyan Counties
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Hicks, John F. (1949- )
John F. Hicks is a diplomat and global educator who served as a United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN). A native of Goldsboro, North Carolina, Hicks was born in 1949. Hicks holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Morehouse College, a diploma and master’s degree from Johns
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Support of EIS urged to expand Columbia Basin Project irrigation
(The Center Square) – A nonprofit organization advocating for the federal Columbia Basin Project that provides irrigation water to a multitude of central Washington farms is urging support of an environmental impact study that would expand the service area and mitigate depletion of an underlying
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Rice, Norm (1943- )
Norman B. Rice was born in Denver, Colorado.  He migrated to Seattle in 1970 to attend college.  In 1972 he earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and two years later a master’s degree in public administration both from the University of
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Perry, June Carter (1943- )
Ambassador June Carter Perry was born November 13, 1943 in Texarkana, Arkansas.  After completing grade school, Perry was accepted at the Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois where in 1965 she earned her degree in history.  Two years later she earned a master’s degree in European History at the
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New Visitor’s Center to Open Next to Birmingham’s Historic 16th Street Baptist Church
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1990
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Bean, Maurice Darrow (1928-2009)
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2009
U.S. Postal Service Worker Sentenced to 42 Months for Delivering Marijuana to STT
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Rush, Bobby L. (1946- )
Bobby Lee Rush was born in Albany, Georgia on November 23, 1946. He graduated from Marshall High School in that city at the age of seventeen and soon afterwards enlisted in the United States Army.  Rush served in the Army from 1963 to 1968 when he was honorably
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1946
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Charles Edward Anderson
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Leslie M. Alexander (1948- )
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