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1995

(1856) Sara G. Stanley Addresses The Convention Of Disfranchised Citizens Of Ohio

In January 1856, Sara G. Stanley, representing the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society of Delaware, Ohio, addressed the all-male Convention of Disfranchised Citizens of Ohio who met at the Columbus City Hall. She called upon the forty delegates who included among their ranks John Mercer Langston, Peter

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On October 2, 1937,Johnny L. Cochran, Jr. was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He

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1937

Condoleezza Rice

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Williams v. Mississippi (1898)

? Submitted March 18, 1898. Decided April 25, 1898. At June term 1896 of the Circuit Court of Washington County, Mississippi, the plaintiff in error was indicted by a grand jury composed entirely of white men for the crime of murder. On the 15th day of June he made a motion to quash the indic

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COINTELPRO Memorandum

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Lift Every Voice and Sing

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23

1951

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Malcolm X born in Omaha, Nebraska

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1925

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1940

The Great Migration

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1891

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