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In the account below Edith Lee-Payne recalls the day she was photographed as a 12 year old participant in the March on Washington, and the curious history of that photograph through
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Pandemic Power: Black female mayors shine during COVID-19 crisis
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A Cultural History of the Zoot Suit
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Meredith Mathews East Madison YMCA
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Josephine Baker is remembered by most people as the flamboyant African American entertainer who earned fame and fortune in Paris in the 1920s.  Yet through much of her later life, Baker became a vocal opponent of  segregation and discrimination, often initiating one-woman protests against racial
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