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28
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5
1856
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2
1955
Martin Luther King Jr
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20
1958
(1994) General Colin Powell Urges African American Students to Reject Racial Hatred
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Hayes, Charles Arthur (1918-1997)
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(1995) William Jefferson Clinton, “the Job of Ending Discrimination in This Counrt is Not Over”
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1892
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